Smugglers were caught using a fake U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) truck to try to sneak migrants over the U.S. border in California on Saturday.

The truck, which was tricked out in Border Patrol decal stickers and fake Department of Homeland Security license plates to resemble a real CBP truck, was initially spotted by Mexican immigration officials.

Mexican authorities said they found the truck on July 22 in Mexico close to the California border with 17 migrants huddled inside.

The smugglers likely told the migrants something like, “Hop on, we already have an agreement. This is a US Border Patrol vehicle. With this, they won’t ask you anything before you cross the border,” said David Pérez Tejada, delegate for the Mexican government’s National Migration Institute.

The truck was confiscated by U.S. authorities after it was found.

The smugglers were arrested at the border, and the migrants were transferred to Tijuana police headquarters.

A similar incident happened in 2021.

A fake CBP vehicle transporting 10 migrants was spotted and apprehended by Homeland Security and Border Patrol agents near the Tucson border. In that case, the driver of the fake Border Patrol car and the 10 migrants were taken into custody.

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NEW: Looks like a legit Border Patrol vehicle, right?
It’s a fake. Border Patrol in Tucson, AZ arrested a human smuggler who basically cloned a Border Patrol SUV, had a fake uniform, and had 10 illegal immigrants in the car. All in custody. @FoxNews
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It’s not just government vehicles that smugglers try to clone either.

Last month, CBP said smugglers used fake FedEx vans to try to smuggle migrants into El Paso.

Last year in June, 53 migrants died in an 18-wheeler that was decked out to look like a legally registered truck. The truck made it past a Texas border checkpoint and arrived in San Antonio, where it started having mechanical problems and was abandoned by its driver.

Meanwhile, border authorities warn that it is extremely dangerous for migrants to depend on smugglers to help them make the trek up through Central America and over the U.S. border illegally.

Migrant deaths have soared this summer from dangerous conditions and scorching temperatures.

Border Patrol agents encountered 96 dead migrants in the El Paso area this fiscal year, the agency said, more than three times the 29 bodies agents found in fiscal year 2022.

“We are currently recording a significant number of migrant deaths in New Mexico due to the desert terrain and extreme heat. Migrants do not have sufficient water and there is minimal shade,” Border Patrol said in a statement to Border Report.

“We are seeing a lot of people crossing during the hottest part of the day, which is something we normally had not seen before. That ends up being a very dangerous thing,” Andy Buckert, a watch commander at the Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station, told the outlet.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration has allowed hundreds of thousands of new illegal migrants into the country.

Overall, during the last two years, the administration has allowed at least 541,000 migrants into the country through the parole authority, which allows the federal government to let in migrants without visas.

Exacerbating the issue is the end of Title 42, a COVID emergency rule that allowed authorities to deport migrants quickly back to Mexico.

Title 42 expired on May 11 after several previous attempts by the Biden administration to end it.

A newly engaged woman plunged to her death after she fell over the edge of a 100-foot scenic seaside cliff in Turkey only minutes after her boyfriend got down on one knee and proposed.

Yesim Demir, 39, had gone to the romantic spot with the would-be-groom Nizamettin Gursu where the two were just about to celebrate their engagement with a picnic meal when Demir slipped off the steep cliff in Canakkale, a city in northwestern Turkey, on July 6, the New York Post reported.

Gursu told local outlets, “We chose it to have a romantic memory after the proposal. We drank some alcohol. Everything happened at once. She lost her balance and fell down.”

A woman in #Turkey slipped and plunged to her death off a cliff, a few minutes after her boyfriend proposed to her.https://t.co/S7R2dUYUhF

— IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) July 25, 2023

The soon-to-be groom had left his bride-to-be to get food and drinks in the car when he heard Demir let out an awful scream, Newsflash reported. Gursu rushed back to the spot where he left Yesim and when returned he spotted his fiancee at the foot of the cliffside point at Polente Cape, the outlet noted.

Medics arrived and immediately began to work on reviving Demir, who initially survived the 104-foot fall. But later she succumbed to her injuries and was officially declared dead after 45 minutes of resuscitation efforts failed, the outlet noted.

Authorities closed off the area and an investigation into her death got underway. On July 15, the location was opened “in a controlled manner,” according to the Post.

The scenic cliffside is reportedly a favorite place for locals to watch the sunset. However, many people noted that the site isn’t safe, Fox News noted.

Demir’s friends also said the spot is very popular but warned it’s known that the roads are “very bad” there.

A woman has tragically fallen to her death, after her boyfriend proposed to her and took her to the edge of a seaside cliff to watch the sunset.

Yesim Demir was with her partner in
northwestern Turkey when she slipped and fell 100ft off a cliff.

She initially survived the… pic.twitter.com/vxZBQGwpTJ

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 25, 2023

“This is a place where everyone comes and watches the sunset,” they said. “However, the roads are very bad and there is no precaution on the edge of the cliff. A fence should be drawn here, precautions should be taken.”

At the time of this publication, there is no word yet as to the status of the investigation or if an official cause of death has yet to be released for Demir.

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