“They had hopes, they had dreams and they desired for more. They are the American dream,” said the caretaker of “Los 53 Migrantes Memorial,” a row of crosses adorned with flowers, wreaths, rosary beads and photos of the 40 men and 13 women who died.
in a suffocatingly hot semi-trailer on a lonely road on San Antonio’s Southwest Side.
“It is not enough to refer to them as the 53 migrants who died in a tractor trailer in the sweltering heat, on a road on the outskirts of San Antonio,” Martinez said. “It is not enough to only list their names, their ages and their places of origin. If we want to make changes in this county, this country, this city, this state, it is paramount that we continue to show their faces and reveal every individual story in detail.
The tragedy was the nation’s deadliest immigrant-smuggling case involving a big rig. Authorities say the smugglers packed the migrants into the trailer in Laredo, and the rig passed undetected through a federal immigration checkpoint north of that border city. That evening, the driver abandoned the red Volvo truck on Quintana Road near JBSA-Lackland.
Wednesday’s ceremony was a somber evening of remembrance, reflection and a call to action. The Rev. Katrina Ornelas, who has been a hospice chaplain and a bereavement counselor, led the group in prayers in Spanish and English.
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