BREAKING: California crash kills 13 including smugglers, illegal immigrants who entered through hole in border fence

A mass casualty California highway crash which killed at least 13 people Tuesday, reportedly involved human smugglers and 25 illegal aliens crammed into a single Tuesday, a Border Patrol source told Fox News.

According to Fox News the smugglers drove through a hole that was cut into a section of the border fence near the US-Mexico border in Southern California. A section that was not part of former President Donald Trump’s border wall and was constructed between 2007 and 2009. According to Fox 11 Los Angeles, the crash occurred in Holtville, about 125 miles outside of San Diego.

Border Patrol sources told Fox News that the crash involved "human smugglers and 25 illegal immigrants" who were crammed into a Ford Expedition, which would normally only seat eight. California Highway Patrol officers arrived to find 12 people dead at the scene, while another victim died at a local hospital. The remaining eight victims were transported to local hospitals.Law enforcement officials are working with the Mexican government to identify the victims, who range from 20 to 55.

"Two vehicles crammed with illegal immigrants inside had driven through the ten-foot wide hole in the early morning hours of Monday’s midnight shift somehow evading a mobile camera system set up nearby," sources told Fox News. "The sources added that the border patrol was not looking for the smugglers until they were notified by the Imperial County Sheriffs Office about the crash, which occurred about 8 miles north of where the fence was cut.”

California Highway Patrol Chief Omar Watson told reporters that they do not yet know if the driver of the Ford, who died in the crash, had stopped at a stop sign before crossing into the path of the semi truck around 6:15 am

During an interview with CNN on Monday morning, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) said regarding thousands of illegals being allowed to cross the border "If that is the message that we send to Central America and around the world, I can assure you, it won't be long before we have tens of thousands of people showing up to our border."

Gonzalez added, "And it’ll be catastrophic for our party, for our country, for my region, for my district, in the middle of a pandemic, in an area where we've lost over 3,000 people in my small congressional district. So, I think we need to have a better plan in place. I think asylum seekers should be able to ask for asylum and be processed in their home country or a neighboring country. And we shouldn’t have a policy in place that impulses people to make this 2,000 mile trek where cartels and human traffickers are enriching themselves."

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said earlier this week that President Joe Biden’s immigration agenda will be a disaster for the US and hoped "the administration continues using a Trump-era public health order to quickly expel migrant adults and families, at least during the pandemic." The Congressman specifically mentioned human smugglers who "will likely use the shift in immigration tactics from the Trump to the Biden administration to convince migrants to come to the US. “The bad guys know how to market this."

El Centro Regional Medical Center chief executive Adolphe Edward said in an interview that he believed that the victims from the crash were "undocumented immigrants," but later suggested the term was inappropriate for a healthcare professional and said, they "don’t use the term undocumented in the hospitals," according to The Washington Post.  Edwards added "To us, these folks that came to us are patients."