Refrigerated truck with ice-covered broccoli found packed with 60 immigrants in Texas

Sixty immigrants have been found in a load of ice-covered broccoli in a refrigerated trailer that was searched at a South Texas border checkpoint, federal officials said on Monday.

A US Customs and Border Protection statement said nobody was hurt and the trucker was arrested at the Falfurrias checkpoint.

Agents on Saturday opened the padlocked trailer and found dozens of immigrants amid pallets of broccoli lined with ice. Customs officials said the temperature inside the trailer was 49 degrees Fahrenheit (9 degrees Celsius). Some immigrants wore hooded heavy coats.

The immigrants from Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador and Hondurans were detained and being processed for entering the US illegally. The trucker faces immigrant smuggling charges.

Officials did not immediately said where the produce was headed or provide further details on the investigation.