El Paso Border Patrol Clips Ninja-Turtle Style Smuggling Try in Manhole Tunnel; Migrants Attempting To Cross Into Country Beneath Manhole Discovered by Border Patrol; Border Patrol Intercepts 13 Suspected Migrants in El Paso Storm Drain System

El Paso Border Patrol clips ninja-turtle style smuggling try in manhole tunnel:

Cowabunga! Those weren’t the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

U.S. Border Patrol agents found and arrested 11 undocumented migrants inside an underground storm drainage tunnel during an illegal border-crossing attempt in El Paso’s Segundo Barrio last week.

The human smuggling in manhole tunnels was discovered on Aug. 13 when El Paso Independent School District police spotted several people exiting the Sixth Avenue storm drain outside Guillen Middle School, the Border Patrol said.

The school campus is located next to a curve of the César Chávez Border Highway along the Rio Grande. It is not unheard of for South Side residents to talk about seeing migrants pop out of manholes.

EPISD police contacted the Border Patrol, which dispatched its Confined Space Entry Team, a unit specially trained to search the potentially dangerous maze of drainage tunnels.

Border Patrol agents were able to hear the migrants inside the storm drain and ordered them to continue their path and exit. Agents arrested 11 undocumented migrants from Guatemala, Mexico and El Salvador, officials said.

The migrants were medically cleared and processed under Title 8, whose consequences include expedited removal, criminal penalties and a five-year reentry ban. —>READ MORE HERE

Migrants Attempting To Cross Into Country Beneath Manhole Discovered by Border Patrol:

The border crossing method is more dangerous than it seems

A group of 11 migrants attempting to enter the country through an underground storm drainage tunnel were discovered and arrested by the US Border Patrol.

The migrants’ travel strategy was similar to those  featured in the popular “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” cartoons, but in reality can be deadly.

Border Patrol’s Confined Space Entry Team responded to the scene on Monday, officials said in a Facebook post. The team is trained to deal with illegal entries through drainage systems and tunnels.

The human smuggling operation was discovered El Paso Independent School District police, who saw several people exiting the storm drain outside Guillen Middle School, the El Paso Times reported.

The school is located next to the César Chávez Border Highway along the Rio Grande. The newspaper said that nearby residents had previously reported migrants climbing out of manholes.

Officials said the migrants were from Guatemala, Mexico and El Salvador, according to the outlet. —>READ MORE HERE

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