A U.S.-based truck driver is facing multiple charges after more than a dozen people were discovered inside of a refrigerated trailer he was was hauling at a Border Patrol I-19 checkpoint.
On Thursday, May 29, a semi truck hauling a refrigerated trailer passed through an I-19 Immigration Checkpoint near Tubac, Arizona.
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Tucson Sector U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents discovered 16 migrants inside the trailer after a canine unit alerted to the vehicle.
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“It was set to 50 degrees and locked with no means of escape. The U.S. citizen driver faces criminal charges,” said John R. Modlin, Chief Patrol Agent of CBP’s Tucson Sector.