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TRUCKERS' BORDER TROUBLES * USA / Mexico
* Texas - Border patrol warns truckers to be on lookout for stowaways
Laredo,TXS,USA -Land Line, By Clarissa Kell-Holland -3 May 2013: -- A truck driver was detained for more than three hours this past week after stowaways were found hiding in his air fairing. Now, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is warning all truckers who stop in border towns to be on the lookout for those looking to hitch a ride... CBP Agent Efrain Perez, public affairs liaison, told Land Line on Friday, May 3, the agency is trying to provide awareness to the trucking community of the growing trend where undocumented immigrants are hiding in truckers’ air fairings or hiding in small spaces underneath their trailers... Truck driver Joe Geeting of Rockford, IL, was detained for more than three hours on Monday, April 29, after two stowaways were found hiding in his air fairing. He was eventually released after the CBP realized he wasn’t involved in human trafficking, but not before he was handcuffed, and his tractor-trailer, load and possessions were seized. Geeting said he stopped for about 10 minutes at a Pilot in Laredo, which is when the stowaways must have crawled up on top of his tractor. CBP agents discovered a handprint near the top of his tractor, which led to their discovery...
* Top Comment from Karl Weber -Palatine, Illinois, USA -6 May 2013: "When they catch stowaways on trains do they handcuff the engineer? To many truckers get in trouble because they are tricked or unaware of the methods the human smugglers use to bring drugs and people to the US. The authorities just arrest them[the truckers] and ruin their lives to advance their own careers."
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