51 dead in tractor-trailer people smuggling racket in Texas.
The use of large trucks to pack together and conceal migrants has been on the rise, current and former officials said, a means of maximizing profits for criminal networks and a sign of the increasing desperation of those seeking to enter the country by any means possible.
Increasingly using tractor-trailers because they can cram 80 people into them.
Now I might just be a broken down choir boy/failed student from the 60's...old age pensioner from the land of the kangaroos, emus, wombats and koalas...BUT...since 9/11 I have gotten a lot smarter, a lot wiser.
Now even I know that the US govt can seal the Mexican border *airtight*, *watertight*, and every other tight to the activities of people-smugglers and migrants entering the country illegally...if it wants to.