Guatemalan police rescued 126 mainly Haitian migrants from an abandoned shipping container on the side of a road Saturday — highlighting how the desperate flow of people from Haiti and across South America has not abated despite the recent wave of U.S. deportations.

Guatemalan authorities said they searched the trailer around dawn after residents heard screams coming from within, the BBC reported. The shipping container was found in an area between the towns of Nueva Concepción and Cocales in the country’s south.

Police spokesman Jorge Aguilar told reporters that of the 126 undocumented people found inside, 106 were from Haiti, 11 from Nepal and nine from Ghana, AFP reported.

Police suspect they had paid to be illegally taken to the United States via Mexico by smugglers, who instead abandoned them on the road. [MORE]