2 Illegal Aliens Dead, 12 Injured in Human Trafficking Accident in Texas

Illegal immigrants are apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and National Guard troops in Eagle Pass, Texas, on June 30, 2022. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

A pickup truck crash in Brooks County, Texas, has left two illegal immigrants dead and another 12 injured, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).

The accident took place at about 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 16 when a Brooks County Sheriff’s Deputy tried to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation. The driver of the white Ford F-150 pickup truck refused to stop. This resulted in a high-speed chase, which led to the truck crashing. It carried 14 illegal aliens from Guatemala and Mexico, two of whom died in the crash.

The other 12 who suffered injuries were transported to a hospital nearby. The driver fled the scene and has not yet been found.

The Brooks County crash is the latest in a series of accidents involving illegal border crossers. Earlier in October, three illegal aliens were killed and another three injured in a car crash involving a human smuggling operation near the Texas border. The accident was caused by the driver attempting to swerve the vehicle off the road at a high speed to avoid crashing into an animal.

In September, a 17-year-old girl allegedly smuggling nine illegal aliens from Mexico crashed her vehicle in Uvalde, Texas. Three people died in the accident.

In June, 53 illegal aliens were found dead inside a sweltering abandoned tractor-trailer in Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott slammed the Biden administration’s border policies for the tragedy.

“These deaths are on Biden. They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law,” Abbott said in a social media post.

Since October 2021, at least 782 illegal migrants have died attempting to cross the border as of mid-September, officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told Fox News.

Rising Illegal Alien Numbers

According to data from CBP, Border Patrol officials encountered over 2.15 million illegal immigrants in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year between October 2021 and August 2022.

This is up from the 1.73 million encountered in the entirety of fiscal year 2021 and more than four times the 458,088 encountered in fiscal year 2020.

In a recent letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) warned that Mayorkas could face impeachment if his department does not implement new border controls.

A rise in illegal immigration is often accompanied by drug trafficking, a multi-billion dollar trade involving Chinese-supplied ingredients, the GOP senators warned.

“Your failure to faithfully enforce this nation’s immigration laws and willful blindness to the very real humanitarian crisis at our southern border amounts to a gross dereliction of duty and a violation of your oath of office,” the letter said. “This is gross dereliction of duty and, if not corrected swiftly, could provide grounds for impeachment.”