17 immigrants found locked inside hot tractor-trailer in Texas
http://abcnews.go.com/US/17-immigrants-found-locked-inside-hot-tractor-trailer/story?id=49201679Aug 14, 2017
Seventeen immigrants were rescued from a stifling tractor-trailer in Texas on Sunday after being locked inside for as many as eight hours.
The undocumented immigrants were driven across the Mexican border before the tractor trailer stopped in Edinburg, Texas, according to police. Edinburg is about 20 miles north of the border.
Edinburg police said they received a call from Mexico reporting a relative was locked inside the trailer at about 11 a.m. on Sunday, ABC affiliate KRGV reported. Police said they found the trailer at a Flying J truck stop, knocked on the outside and heard a response. The immigrants had been inside the trailer for as long as eight hours, according to police.
The immigrants were from from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Romania, KRGV reported....
