Parked at a big truckstop in the Rio Grande valley in Southern Texas recently I thought I heard or felt someone on the catwalk behind my sleeper. Then I definitely felt someone climbing around.
If I had been parked in the middle of nowhere it could have been a bit scary but as I was at the big Flying J at Edinburg Tx I got dressed quickly and got out to have a look around. Surprisingly there was no sign of anybody and I even looked in the back of my empty reefer trailer so I went back to bed .
I was wondering if it had been my imagination then heard something on the roof. By then it was 3am so I waited until the next morning when it was light and climbed up the exhaust stack bracket to take a look on the roof.
There I discovered the sorry sight of two Mexican teenage kids laid flat under the air kit desperate to get a ride past the United States homeland security checkpoint and into the US proper.
They got back down when I gestured for them to do so with a humble politeness so I let them run off where they presumably went in search of someone else to get a lift off the next night.
I might be soft but it can only be imagined what sort of hardship will await if they ever make it wherever they dream of being.
