Two dead, 17 nearly suffocated in railroad car smuggling event in Uvalde

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : They don't enter at ports of entry making asylum or other immigration-related claims.
47% : Those being smuggled are considered gotaways by Border Patrol agents and law enforcement.
45% : Smugglers use railroad cars to transport people; coyotes follow train tracks, pipelines and power lines as they bring groups of foreign nationals north to bypass law enforcement and Border Patrol checkpoints.
45% : Human smuggling is a daily occurrence in Texas stemming from the southern border.
43% : They intentionally seek to evade capture by law enforcement after they've entered the country illegally between ports of entry.

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