Two immigrants were caught on police dash cam leading Texas cops on a wild high-speed car chase in the middle of the night, at speeds of up to 100 mph.
The heart-stopping footage shows Texas Department of Public Safety officers following the couple along a straight stretch of highway along RM-334 in Kinney County, near the border with Mexico. near Del Rio in southwest Texas.
Police can be heard radioing the operator: ‘They won’t stop!’ before saying the vehicle was traveling at speeds “in excess of 100 mph.”
The migrants appear to show no signs of slowing down in their Toyota Camry as the couple try to evade the police, before their car suddenly catches fire.
Two migrants led Texas police officers on a high-speed chase, reaching speeds of up to 100 mph near the Mexican border in southwest Texas.
Shocking dash cam footage captured migrants evading police on RM-334 in Kinney County.
Two men were arrested and have been charged with evading arrest and human trafficking.
Their car is eventually forced to stop on the shoulder of the road before the pair get away and attempt to flee.
But the officers quickly followed them and could be heard yelling in Spanish and English ordering the suspects to the ground and threatening them at gunpoint.
Two other passengers who were sitting in the back of the car, and who were also illegal but trafficked immigrants, managed to run into the darkness, evading the clutches of law enforcement.
The driver, who was eventually forced to stop when his car caught fire, was later identified as Eduardo José Flores, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela living in Austin.
The car only stopped after it caught fire, forcing the driver to stop on the shoulder.
Two people who had been smuggled into the back of the car fled and fled into the darkness.
The driver and his passenger were captured by law enforcement and forced to lie on the ground.
The driver was identified as Eduardo José Flores, left, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. On the right, Luis Alejandro Basabe, an illegal immigrant, also from Venezuela, was a passenger in the car.
Flores’ passenger was identified as Luis Alejandro Basabe, also an illegal immigrant, from Venezuela who resides in Austin, Texas.
The pair tried to evade capture as they ran into the brush, but the officers were too fast for them and managed to knock them to the ground at gunpoint.
Both have since been charged with evading arrest and human trafficking.
‘The driver and passenger, both illegal immigrants from Venezuela, were arrested. “The illegal immigrants who were being smuggled fled on foot and were not located,” police said in a statement.
Texas State Police walk toward a fence after migrants broke through barbed wire to enter the U.S. on Thursday.
A migrant checks her bag after Texas National Guard members burned clothing used by migrants to break through barbed wire and a fence to enter the U.S. and surrender.
These meetings are becoming more frequent. On Thursday, hundreds of migrants broke through the barbed wire of the wall in El Paso, Texas, overpowering border agents who had tried to expel them.
“Hundreds of immigrants were pushed south of the concertina wire in the middle of the night by the Texas National Guard,” the border snapper explained.
“Hours later, they broke the concertina again and charged toward the border wall in El Paso, Texas.”
The immigrants were already in the United States because they had already crossed the international border, a few hundred meters south of the border wall.
Migrants violate the infrastructure established by the Texas National Guard on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, on March 21, 2024.
Migrants stand in infrastructure that was breached by migrants in the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, on March 21, 2024.
Male immigrants are escorted south behind a barrier by the Texas National Guard on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, on March 21, 2024.
A migrant sits on a fence after a group of migrants broke through barbed wire and a fence.
Many of these immigrants seeking asylum had chosen not to immediately turn themselves in because they were stuck in limbo due to a Texas SB4 law.
The controversial law gives state and local police in the Lone Star State permission to arrest illegal immigrants, a right that has only been reserved for federal agents such as the U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The law, which has been banned several times in recent days by federal courts, was allowed to take effect for a few hours Tuesday, before being blocked again Tuesday night.
The legal whiplash left many immigrants unsure of what would happen to them if they turned themselves in to the Border Patrol.
Tension had been building for much of the past week as the camp grew.
Known as ‘Gate 36’, this is a popular location for immigrants seeking asylum in El Paso, Texas. Migrants routinely cross this area, look for the Border Patrol and turn themselves in to US authorities.
Migrants camp along barbed wire on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande on the day the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit hears oral arguments on Texas’ motion to lift a block on its immigration law. SB4 immigration that would allow state officials to arrest migrants suspected of being in the country illegally
Hundreds of people were camping in the no man’s land between the north of the river that separates the United States and Mexico, the Rio Grande. The river is the international border, not the border wall.
On Wednesday night, the Texas National Guard detained hundreds of migrants and forced them to cross the barbed wire south, which is still in place in the United States.
On Thursday morning, the migrants jumped over the chain-link fence in coordination and ran toward the border wall to, presumably, surrender.