Sixteen migrants were found hiding in a hotel room in Edinburg, Texas, after they walked through a storm drain to enter the country illegally from Mexico.
Border Patrol agents found the crowded two-bed room at the hotel on September 17 after responding to a tip that it was being used to shelter illegal immigrants.
When Rio Grande Valley agents arrived on the scene, they observed two people bringing back several jugs of water and groceries bags to a room.
They surveilled the area before Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office conducted a welfare check.
Agents identified ten of the subjects as citizens of Honduras, five as citizens of El Salvador, and one from Mexico.
The illegal migrants claimed that they had already been in the US for more than 30 days and that they were waiting to be moved further into the country.
Border Patrol Agents found 16 migrants hiding in a two-bed hotel room for more than 30 days after using a storm drain to enter Texas illegally
The illegal migrants claimed that they had already been in the US for more than 30 days and that they were waiting to be moved further into the country
In the early morning of the next day, McAllen Border Patrol Station agents found people in a storm drain in Hidalgo, a town 15.22 miles away from Edinburg.
Agents and Hidalgo Police Department officers established a perimeter and arrested three illegal migrants who were exiting the storm drain.
An hour later, three more subjects were caught exiting the same drain, including one unaccompanied child. The group of six people were apprehended before being later identified as citizens of Honduras and Mexico.
Later at night, more migrants were seen walking in the same storm drain.
Hidalgo police officers and border patrol agents
