Arizona cops find 97 migrants in refrigerated truck

[Heidi]

Source: Reuters

Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:29pm EDT

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona police pulled over a refrigerated truck and found 97 illegal immigrants in the back among near-freezing produce, police said on Thursday.

The officer stopped the truck on a highway a few miles (km) north of the border city of Nogales late on Wednesday, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said.

An inspection found 97 adults and children from Mexico and Guatemala crammed into the trailer, which was heavily chilled to one degree Celsius (34 Fahrenheit).

No one was harmed. The immigrants were handed over to Border Patrol agents, who processed them for deportation.

"These people were treated like cargo. They were crammed inside this truck and subjected to near freezing temperatures," said Matthew Allen, the special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency investigations in Arizona.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE57Q0AZ20090827

[DesertFlower]

1. again. this just happened

a few weeks ago.

[zonkers]

2. Crazy. But it was probably not that cold with all that bodyheat.

[Amos Moses]

3. Those refrigerator units will keep running and bring the

temperature down if it senses the air temps in the trailer are higher, 34 degrees in this case, than the driver set it. It was probably very cold.

[Amos Moses]

4. This asshole driver was more worried about a few skids of

mangos getting too warm than he was about the lives of 97 people. Another report with pics:

http://www.abc15.com/content/news/centralsouthernarizona/nogales/story/97-immigrants-found-inside-34-degree-refrigerated/m1ajBKTZ2UeL7l1kXL55Og.cspx

[timo]

5. 97

thats it? 97? mustve been one of thos little cab over izuzu npr trucks, in a big reefer he shouldve been able to hold 150 to 175 at least!!

[Javaman]

6. Include your sarcasm icon next time, some people here aren't that swift. nt

[WriteDown]

7. I hope they remembered to count them for the census. nt