Illegal Aliens Busted
Wednesday, 27th September 2006 by James Turnbull
No, not that kind of aliens! Just on the American side of the U.S. and Mexico border there's 5 police cars who appear to have pulled over a truckful of illegal immigrants.
Almost a million illegal immigrants make it over each year and most become agricultural laborers, making up 45% of the workforce.
Wikipedia: United States–Mexico Border
Thanks: Sherwin Vischer
Woah- if that’s really an illegal immigration bust, then that’s a great sight!
lol! That’s a fantastic find – I wish I could have posted it 😉
Im gonna go ahead and say it again:
Best. sight. ever.
(That goes with Thomas the Tank Engine, The various planes in flight, a Baghdad RPG attack etc. etc.)
That seems to be a pretty big leap there.
The lead truck looks to be a fire truck, the one behind, perhaps an ambulance (or maybe a garbage truck). The police vehicles — black and white in the image — don’t seem to be U.S. Border Patrol (or whatever they are called now) as they are white with green stripes.
Yeah, it’s near the border, but, again that’s quite a leap to say definitively its an “illegal immigrant” bust.
Yes, as submitter I was a little concerned with both the fact they were black & whites, as well as the way they were parked. You’d think for a 5 car event they would have had the truck surrounded, or have set themselves up as a barricade, etc. Also, agreed with the lead vehicle being potentially a fire truck. Maybe a hit-and-run? The white rectangular object could be a stretcher. Only thing left is the black object between the police cars…a motorbike maybe? That or just a group of police sitting on the barrier chatting.
Either way, that’s a lot of police cars. Something was going down, or it was just training. =)
Hmm either way I think it has happened fairly quickly, as they haven’t closed the road, and also havent got a proper road closure happening on the junction, which makes me think that it may not be a RTA.
Consider the facts: when do you most often see that kind of police car formation? In a car chase. Maybe they were chasing a bike and it hit that van in front and thats where the accident stopped. The fire engine has cutting gear.
Stupid vivid imagination!
Are we allowed to digg this?
yes Rob, you are 😀
While the incident isn’t far from the I-5 border crossing, the vehicles appear to be heading in the general direction toward the crossing, not away from it as one would expect in an illegal-alien stoppage.
What I find most fascinating about this one is the massive difference between the California neighbourhood and the Mexico neighbourhood just 200ft away. Yowza.
Well in that case, go and digg it. I submitted it, and I want diggs dammit!
http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgooglesightseeing.com%2F2006%2F09%2F27%2Fillegal-aliens-busted%2F&title=Illegal+Aliens+Busted&bodytext=&topic=tech_news
Thats a huge back-up at the border! https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=32.54273,-117.029181&z=19
I’ve had to sit for over an hour to get into Canada, I can’t imagine what kind of wait these people had.
Notice not many people appear to be actually LEAVING the USA 😀
You fools! It’s the RIAA going after an illegal downloader!
You said that on digg as well.
That is Camino de la Plz (Plaza?) which parallels the border going toward the San Ysidro Port of Entry it appears. An unlikely location for an alien bust, I think. Smugglers don’t like to be in all that traffic, they prefer quieter areas to cross.
If you navigate west along the border until you hit the beach (yes, you can see the Tijuana Wall across the beach), the Tijuana side looks better urbanized, including houses with swimming pools. What is the big circular stadium?! I can’t figure any sport field that would fit there. A box arena? Cockfighting?
Sorry, just a test comment.
Roberto, I’d guss that the circular arena is for bull fighting.
rob, I think there are similar numbers of people leaving and entering the US (maybe not in terms of emmigration / immigration, but in terms of border crossings). It always appears that there are always more people going into the US, but in fact this is only because there are much bigger queues (i.e., line-ups) going in that direction. This is simply because US customs & immigration takes a lot longer to get thru than does the Mexican version. When I lived in Ontario, the same was often true at the border crossings over the Niagara river.
just a few hundred yards away is this interesting double-exposure:
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=32.53904,-117.079185&z=18
Now if you want to seen how the real thing is parked, look here https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1008&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=-26.887689,153.004913&spn=0.003249,0.005021&t=k
Most do not become agricultural laborers. They are now the majority in the huge Southern California megalopolis. They work in all occupations. They fill up the schools, freeways, grocery stores, hospital emergency rooms, and jails.