The incident is considered the deadliest human smuggling case in U.S. history.
"For me, it hurts like it was the first day," said Rafala Ortega, whose loved one was among the 53 migrants who died on June 27, 2022.trying to cross into the U.S., their bodies found in the back of an overheated tractor-trailer on the south side of San Antonio.
"Seeing this trailer, this accident, then in my mind I said, 'Oh, my family can be there,'" she told KENS 5 in an interview conducted in Spanish. "Well, I still had hope about finding them alive," she said."And when I looked at the photo, all hope was gone." "The thing is that that's why I paid more, because $11,000 was to pass through the desert," Ortega said in Spanish."But I didn't want them to go through what I suffered.""For me, it hurts like it was the first day," she said."That will never go away. But it gives me joy to come see it and come and fix that place so that it is not forgotten. I don't want it to be forgotten.
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