Guess who gets to pay for this mess?
I wonder why the government won't militarize the border.......oh yeah, that would stop the flow of drugs
Dozens Of Border Chase Victims Remain HospitalizedFeb 11, 2006
cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_042162648.html (AP) SAN DIEGO Nearly two dozen people remain hospitalized today after a van packed with suspected illegal immigrants crashed during a chase near the Mexican border in San Diego.
A blue Chevrolet Sportvan carrying 28 people overturned yesterday after hitting a spike strip that Border Patrol agents had placed in its path. Twenty-two people were being treated at six hospitals.
Police were chasing a total of three vans, which were suspected of being part of an organized smuggling operation.
The chase began around 1:30 p.m. when Border Patrol agents received reports that large numbers of illegal immigrants were being loaded into three vans in the Otay Mesa industrial district of San Diego.
The loading site was near a San Diego warehouse where investigators last month discovered the exit to a 2,400-foot tunnel used to smuggle drugs.
Border Patrol stopped one van and took 35 people into custody. Another 33 people were held after the second van hit a Border Patrol vehicle and a car and halted as it tried to make a U-turn.