Traffic jam surprise
NZPA El Toro An abandoned rental truck that caused a huge traffic jam on a Californian freeway was crammed with 40 virtually suffocating Mexicans trying to enter the country illegally.
“I have never seen so many people in such limited space,” said a California Highway Patrol officer, Rich Solo, the first to reach the vehicle at the week-end on a highway, south of Los Angeles. The patrol had been alerted to a traffic jam on the highway, the main route to Los Angeles from San Diego on the Mexican border.
Two vans from the border patrol check-point near San Clemente — the last spot where authorities try to stop illegal aliens before they escape into the Los Angeles metropolis — took the men back to the station for processing and a bus ride back to Mexico.
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