Video shows illegal aliens found crammed inside semi-truck sleeper cab in alleged smuggling bust

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) released a shocking video Tuesday showing the infinitesimal officers discovered 20 amerciable aliens wrong the trailer and sleeper cab of a semi-truck successful what the bureau described arsenic a quality smuggling attempt.

The video, from a postulation halt of a achromatic Volvo semi successful a agrarian country connected May 18, shows officers pulling the conveyance implicit earlier the operator descends from the cab and attempts to tally away, crossing a acceptable of bid tracks earlier being rapidly collared by instrumentality enforcement.

DPS said that the operator is Miguel Angel Velazquez Chavez, a 25-year-old Mexican national. He was charged with evading apprehension and smuggling of persons.

Illegal aliens are discovered hiding successful the furniture cab of a semi-truck successful an attempted smuggling connected May 18, 2026. (Texas Department of Public Safety)

The video past shows officers inspecting the semi-truck. When they pulled backmost the curtain to the sleeper cab, they recovered respective amerciable aliens packed into the tiny space.

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In all, 20 amerciable aliens were arrested, including 4 minors, according to DPS. They were turned implicit to U.S. Border Patrol.

President Donald Trump and his medication person made it a constituent to ace down connected amerciable borderline crossings, rolling backmost Biden-era policies similar catch-and-release, wherever borderline crossers were not detained aft crossing illegally into the country.

State troopers and the Texas Department of nationalist information pulled implicit a tractor trailer smuggling 20 amerciable aliens into the U.S. connected May 18, 2026. (Texas Department of Public Safety)

In April, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that determination had been zero releases of amerciable aliens astatine the borderline for 11 consecutive months.

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"Eleven consecutive months of ZERO releases astatine the border. Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, we are delivering the astir unafraid borderline successful American history," said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said astatine the time. "The satellite knows America’s borders are closed to lawbreakers."

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials besides praised Trump for his work.

The Department of Homeland Security is presently undergoing a lapse successful backing owed to a partial authorities shutdown. (Getty Images)

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"America First policies, existent consequences, and a unified national effort—backed by personnel, infrastructure, and technology—are however we’ve delivered the astir unafraid borderline successful U.S. history," CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said. "Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, we’re gathering connected what works, refining our approach, and locking successful existent borderline security. This isn’t temporary—it’s the caller normal."

The bureau said amerciable aliens person been importantly deterred from crossing the borderline illegally, and CBP has apprehended less than 9,000 radical per period since Trump took bureau for the 2nd time.