The death toll after an abandoned tractor-trailer was found in San Antonio continued to grow Wednesday, reaching 53 people in what officials are calling likely the deadliest smuggling incident in U.S. history.
June 30, 2022, 3:38 AM
The tragedy occurred at a time when huge numbers of migrants have been coming to the U.S., many of them taking perilous risks to cross swift rivers and canals and scorching desert landscapes. Migrants were stopped nearly 240,000 times in May, up by one-third from a year ago.Bodies of passengers who authorities said suffered from heat stroke and heat exhaustion were carried out of the truck Monday and spread out in body bags on the ground.
José Luis Guzmán Vásquez, 32, from San Miguel Huautla in the southern state of Oaxaca, was among the survivors, said Aida Ruiz García, director of the Oaxacan Institute for Migrant Attention.Experts told USA TODAY that identifying those who died The driver of the truck and three others were arrested, the Department of Justice said. All four are in federal custody.
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