16 Dedicated People Who Tried To Sneak Into Another Country

In 2014, U.S. Customs and Border Protection caught almost 700,000 attempts to cross illegally into America, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That’s down from a high of 1.1 million in 2005. Mind you, the statistics don’t tell the whole story. It’s hard to say for certain why there has been such a decline — maybe it’s better protection of the border, maybe there are fewer opportunities here, maybe more people are trying legal immigration instead. Nevertheless, thousands of people try to sneak into the U.S. every day, and to fool the border guards takes ingenuity and dedication. These folks tried their hardest and still got caught.

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1. Tucked into a speaker box in the trunk, two men had to be rescued by border agents after a K-9 unit sniffed them out.

2. This group of 13 illegal immigrants tried to pose as marines in a van with stolen and altered government plates.

The plates, taken from a U.S. Marine Corps van, had had the center ‘0’ changed to an ‘8’. Alert border guards noticed that all the uniforms had the same name on them, Perez, and subjected the van to further inspection.

3. These cramped, overheated girls might have made it through customs if not for sniffer dogs.

And the sniffer dogs might have saved their lives. “There are numerous possibilities of this incident having resulted in the death of these women, from a rear-end collision to carbon monoxide poisoning,” said Acting Chief Patrol Agent Ricardo E. Aguirre.

4. Hidey-holes cut into the floor of a vehicle didn’t make the grade for this pair trying to cross illegally.