Border security experts are highlighting some of the wild tactics used by cartels to smuggle drugs and illegal immigrants into the United States, arguing the federal government must label cartels as terrorist organizations to better combat the cross-border crime.

And video of the situations local law enforcement encounter on the daily basis is jaw-dropping.

“Another example of a Cartel border-related crime that most Americans never witness,” Jaeson Jones, former commander with Texas’ counterterrorism division, posted to Twitter Tuesday.

Video attached to the post showed a police chase, with a cruiser attempting to pull over a Ford pickup. The truck turned off a main road onto a side street and came to an abrupt stop, before well over a dozen Hispanic males poured out of the vehicle.

The footage, which appeared to be from a police cruiser dash cam, captured the officer involved shout repeatedly at the suspects to halt, but they ignored his demands and disappeared into the darkness. There appears to be 16 illegals in the single vehicle.

“This type of incident occurs 24/7-365 along the southwest border,” Jones posted. “This is human smuggling that very often becomes human trafficking.”

The video is one of several to surface this year of police chases involving illegal immigrants packed into a pickup trucks like sardines.

In late March, at least 22 illegal immigrants streamed out of a stolen Ford F-250 in Brooks County in a video posted to the sheriff’s Facebook page.

The footage, from a cruiser dash cam, showed deputies initially pulled the white four door truck over on northbound Highway 281, about an hour north of the U.S.-Mexico border. A passenger in the truck poked his head out the rear passenger door, and the truck then sped away, crossing both northbound lanes to a turnaround across the median. The vehicle continued across two southbound lanes before driving into a field, where passengers began to flee before the vehicle even came to a stop.

A half-dozen or more men jumped out and over a nearby fence, then well over a dozen more followed suit. Seven men in the back of the truck were packed in, with one row in the bed covered by two pieces of chipboard, and another row on top.

Sheriff’s officials told WTSP all of the illegal immigrants got away.

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Not all chases, however, end without serious injury.

In early June, six illegal immigrants were killed when their car crashed into an irrigation ditch during a police chase in South Texas, Reuters reported.

Police allege an SUV packed with more than a dozen illegal immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico fled in a traffic stop in rural Roberstown, Texas, but police called off their pursuit after the vehicle veered off the road and into a cotton field.

Officers later leaned about the wreck from motorists who found some of the illegal immigrants wandering on the road, Nueces County Sheriff J.C. Hooper told the media.

“Shortly after daylight we were able to locate the vehicle,” he said. “They did find six deceased, five seriously injured, and evidence that more walked away.”