Group of illegal immigrants caught using ladder to get over border fenceBorder wall is 19 to 30 feet tall in most places along Southern border Migrants were busted while waiting for smuggler to pick them up
Undeterred by the federal border wall, illegal immigrants in Texas tried to use a ladder to get past the 19-30 foot border barrier in order to sneak into the country undetected.
Texas troopers rushed to assist US Border Patrol agents who had busted a group of migrants with a huge ladder, tweeted a spokesman for the agency.
‘This morning, @TxDPS & US Border Patrol in Mission, TX, apprehended 5 illegal immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, & El Salvador who attempted to breach the border wall using a makeshift ladder.’ Lt. Chris Olivarez posted online.
The ladder was between 10 and 15 feet, Olivarez told DailyMail.com.
The migrants were waiting for a smuggler to pick them up, after they had scaled the US border wall Tuesday morning in South Texas.
‘What we did is stop a smuggling event; we got to them before the smugglers,’ the trooper added.
The migrants arrested in this incident are from countries that do not typically qualify for asylum, unlike migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti, who are more successful in making an asylum claim to be allowed to stay in the US.
Migrants from Mexico and Central America are traditionally deported immediately when they’re caught by immigration officials.
Citizens of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador do not look to surrender to US Border Patrol agents, like asylum seekers.
Instead, they pay cartels to sneak them into the country and evade law enforcement all together.
The use of makeshift ladders by migrants are common along the border wall.
They can often by found discarded on both side of the border wall, like one made of wiring found by DailyMail.com near El Paso last year.
The steel had been bent by Border Patrol to keep others from using it again, photos show.
Near El Paso, migrants were seen easily climbing on a ladder to the top of the border wall, a video posted earlier this week to an Instagram account showed.
One man even sat on the top and watched cars roll by.
However, migrants who have ladder to climb down the border wall are lucky.
Border Patrol sources explain smuggler will often help migrants climb up the border wall on the Mexican side, but will leave them stranded on top.
The smuggler will take away the rope or ladder needed to get down.
Migrants are often told to jump down, resulting in mostly broken legs and back injures for those who do not die from the fall.