Dozens Of Illegal Immigrants, Hundreds Of Pounds Of Pot Seized By Border Patrol

The Border Patrol reports that agents seized 75 illegal aliens in the back of an 18-wheeler and 19 bundles of marijuana weighing about 327 pounds near Laredo. The immigrants were from Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Pakistan, Mexico, and Sri Lanka. The drugs had a street value of more than $261, 000.