Illegal Immigrant Found Stranded on Makeshift Cart Under El Paso Border Bridge, 4-22-08

A Chilean man was halfway to freedom when his alleged border-crossing attempt was derailed.

The man, who was deported from the U.S. once before, was using a makeshift cart Sunday to shuttle himself along the support beams of an international bridge over the Rio Grande. But a wheel on the cart broke, stranding him on the span at least 20 feet above the ground, the Border Patrol said Monday.

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