A van packed with 17 illegal Mexican migrant workers slams into the back of a tractor-trailer rig in central New Mexico, killing 13 migrants. All crew members and passengers evacuate safely. The decomposing bodies of six Romanian stowaways are found in a load of sunflower seeds aboard a cargo ship in Spain.
Authorities suspect the stowaways suffocated.
At least 12 Mexicans attempting to cross the border into California are caught in a freak snowstorm and die on the US side of the border, about 65 kilometers east of San Diego. Authorities believe the migrants died of heat exhaustion. Ten die trying to swim ashore.