It is highly uncharacteristic for there to be legitimate pedestrian traffic in that area. |
It was only about six inches below the asphalt. |
It's not the first time that people have tried to make it through up there under those conditions. A lot of times, smugglers will tell these guys, 'It's gonna be a half-hour walk. Don't worry about it. |
The terrain there is very rough. It's riddled with concrete and rocks. It's difficult to walk on, let alone run on. |
We never got in position to signal it to stop. We got between a quarter-mile to a half-mile behind it. |
We'll try to determine who's responsible for this smuggling operation (and) who the drivers of the vehicle were. |
We're not 100 percent conclusive on that. They're still looking into that. . . . I don't want to get into it yet, into how they actually entered. |
You have three vans in one location with a significant number of illegal aliens. This was obviously a coordinated smuggling effort. |