PICTURED: Guatemalan woman, 23, died in her mother s arms after horror SUV crash that killed 13 people who illegally snuck through a gap in the US-Mexico border fence
Yesenia Cardona, 23, from Guatemala was among 13 migrants who died in a deadly car crash on Tuesday after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border
She and her 47-year-old mother Berlin were traveling in an SUV crammed with 25 people, allegedly as part of a larger human smuggling plot to California
The SUV snuck through a gap in the border fence before 6am Tuesday morning
Less than an hour later it was involved in a deadly collision with a semi-truck
Border Patrol reveals the SUV involved in fatal crash that killed 13 people drove through a hole in the Mexican border fence an hour before
Authorities have revealed that an SUV involved in a deadly crash in California on Tuesday had snuck across the US-Mexican border an hour before
The 25 people in the SUV were among 44 who had driven through a hole in the border fence just before 6am
The SUV and a Chevrolet Suburban were caught on surveillance footage
The Chevrolet Suburban caught on fire a short time later
Border patrol agents responding to the fire found 19 people hiding nearby
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Authorities are investigating whether human smuggling was involved after a crash Tuesday involving an SUV packed with 25 people and a tractor-trailer that left 13 people dead and bodies strewn across a roadway near the U.S. Mexico border.
Most of the dead were Mexicans, a Mexican official said.
When police arrived, some of the passengers were trying to crawl out of the crumpled 1997 Ford Expedition while others were wandering around the fields. The rig’s front end was pushed into the SUV’s left side and two empty trailers were jackknifed behind it.
Twelve people were found dead when first responders reached the two-lane highway, which winds through fields in the agricultural southeastern corner of California about 125 miles (201 kilometers) east of San Diego. Another person died at a hospital, California Highway Patrol Chief Omar Watson said.
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Deadly California crash involving 25 immigrants jammed in SUV probed as human smuggling - ICE | 03 March 2021 | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Tuesday that agents are conducting a human smuggling investigation and were at the scene of a devastating crash in California that left at least 13 people dead, according to the agency. The investigation was announced after human smugglers and 25 illegal immigrants jammed into a single SUV, which collided with a big rig and left bodies scattered across a roadway near the U.S. Mexico border on Tuesday, a Border Patrol source told Fox News. Special agents from Homeland Security Investigations San Diego responded . and have initiated a human smuggling investigation, ICE said in a statement.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has started a human smuggling investigation into the crash of a big rig and an SUV on a California highway.