EDINBURG, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents responding to a hotel used for human smuggling discovered migrants using a storm drain to illegally enter the United States. Upon arrival, agents observed two individuals enter the suspect room carrying several jugs of water and groceries. In the early morning of Sept. 18, McAllen Border Patrol Station agents observed several subjects in the storm drain in Hidalgo. MCS agents and Hidalgo Police Department officers set up a perimeter and apprehended three subjects that exited the storm drain. An hour later, three more mirgrants were apprehended exiting the storm drain, to include one unaccompanied child.
