border patrol for 21 years. he says dollars spent on fences, cameras and more agents is paying off. people can t just climb over or crawl under the fence or make a run for it over the border crossings like they used to in the past. the days of running around and catching what you can are gone. reporter: but people are still trying to get across every day and some have come up with some creative and sometimes dangerous ways to do it. hiding inside vehicles is one way, huddled in the trunk, or in hidden compartments. some of the spots people have crammed into are hard to believe. laying in dashboards, sewn into car seats, even under the hood. a detector dog alerted agents to this mercedes side panel. police say a woman was found inside, passed out, with a four-inch burn on her leg. last summer the auto x-ray discovered a man and his 15-year-old boy inside this
folks that have attempted to walk across the border and have passed away in the desert, due to heat and other factors in the environment. we see individuals that are getting transported into the country in trunks of vehicles. i ve seen individuals that have been shoved inside of dashboards in vehicles. it is disheartening. they are treated more like property and like a profit than an actual human being. a month ago i stopped a vehicle for speeding and failure to use a turn signal. the vehicle was continued the windows i couldn t see into the vehicle. as i made my approach two subjects fled eastbound from the vehicle on foot, the driver was apprehended and i was able to see into the backseat of the vehicle and noticed a bundle of marijuana
folks that have attempted to walk across the border and have passed away in the desert, due to heat and other factors in the environment. we see individuals that are getting transported into the country in trunks of vehicles. i ve seen individuals that have been shoved inside of dashboards in vehicles. it is disheartening. they are treated more like property and like a profit than an actual human being. a month ago i stopped a vehicle for speeding and failure to use a turn signal. the vehicle was continued the windows i couldn t see into the vehicle. as i made my approach two subjects fled eastbound from the vehicle on foot, the driver was apprehended and i was able to see into the backseat of the vehicle and noticed a bundle of marijuana
dangerous ways to do it. [ speaking spanish ] reporter: hiding inside vehicles is one way. huddled in the trunk or in hidden compartments. some of the spots people have crammed into are hard to believe. laying in dashboards, sewn into car seats, even under the hood. last month a detector dog alerted agents to this mercedes side panel. police say a woman was found inside passed out with a four-inch burn on her leg. last summer the auto x-ray discovered a man and his 15-year-old boy inside this makeshift gas tank compartment, both suffering chemical burns. over the years people have been caught inside rolls of carpet, in hollowed-out washing machines. this little girl was even stuffed inside a pinata. social workers here in mexico say most of the people that do take the drastic steps that risk their lives do so because they re desperate to get back to the u.s., because they have family there. wolf?
house and move forward? i have. reporter: hyundai doesn t make everything it needs. that means lots of suppliers have sprung up all throughout this region to make bumpers and sun roofs and dashboards. that has created many more jobs. about 800 have come from mobis, another korean company that followed hyundai here. i m guessing a lot of people are happy about this? yes, we are. as a matter of fact, i m one of them. reporter: in all, local officials estimate more than 20,000 jobs have rippled out from the hyundai deal. building up south alabama one job, one car, one minute at a time. tom foreman, cnn, montgomery. all eyes are on capitol hill. momentarily president barack obama will be heading to capitol hill, a meeting with democrats during a caucus trying to make his final push to get legislation on health care pushed through. then we just understood from our