Border Patrol agents seeing spike in human smuggling

From khou.com:

Border Patrol agents are seeing a spike in the number of people hiding in vehicles trying to sneak through highway checkpoints.

“It something that we see that’s very dangerous,” said Yesenia Lopez, a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the El Paso area.

People are crammed into hidden compartments, stashed in trunks, or loaded like cargo into 18-wheelers by smugglers trying to get past highway checkpoints.

http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/texas/2015/05/15/border-patrol-agents-seeing-spike-in-human-smuggling/27393929/