<p>At least 10 people died after a van carrying more than two dozen people crashed Wednesday just south of Encino, Texas, about 80 miles north of the Mexico border, the local authorities said.</p>.<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety said its troopers were investigating a crash on northbound U.S. Highway 281, south of the Falfurrias U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. The van was transporting 30 people, Sheriff Urbino Martinez of Brooks County said.</p>.<p>A Border Patrol official who was briefed on the crash but not authorized to speak publicly about it, said that a van was traveling at a high speed when it took a quick turn and crashed, and that the vehicle was believed to be carrying migrants.</p>.<p>There have been several major fatal crashes involving migrants this year as the United States confronts a deepening humanitarian crisis along the Mexican border.</p>.<p>In the Imperial Valley of California, 13 people packed into an SUV traveling from Mexico died in early March when the vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer rig. Federal authorities in the state later charged a 47-year-old U.S. resident with arranging transportation for people entering the country illegally.</p>.<p>Less than two weeks after the California crash, eight people died in southwestern Texas when a pickup truck collided head-on with another pickup during a 50-mile police chase. A 24-year-old Texas man was charged a few weeks later with “transporting illegal aliens resulting in death.”</p>
<p>At least 10 people died after a van carrying more than two dozen people crashed Wednesday just south of Encino, Texas, about 80 miles north of the Mexico border, the local authorities said.</p>.<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety said its troopers were investigating a crash on northbound U.S. Highway 281, south of the Falfurrias U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. The van was transporting 30 people, Sheriff Urbino Martinez of Brooks County said.</p>.<p>A Border Patrol official who was briefed on the crash but not authorized to speak publicly about it, said that a van was traveling at a high speed when it took a quick turn and crashed, and that the vehicle was believed to be carrying migrants.</p>.<p>There have been several major fatal crashes involving migrants this year as the United States confronts a deepening humanitarian crisis along the Mexican border.</p>.<p>In the Imperial Valley of California, 13 people packed into an SUV traveling from Mexico died in early March when the vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer rig. Federal authorities in the state later charged a 47-year-old U.S. resident with arranging transportation for people entering the country illegally.</p>.<p>Less than two weeks after the California crash, eight people died in southwestern Texas when a pickup truck collided head-on with another pickup during a 50-mile police chase. A 24-year-old Texas man was charged a few weeks later with “transporting illegal aliens resulting in death.”</p>