2 men charged after 51 found dead inside sweltering semitruck in Texas

Two men have been charged in connection with the deaths of 51 migrants who were found in sweltering conditions in a semitruck in San Antonio, according to criminal complaints filed in US District Court for the Western District of Texas. CNN’s Rosa Flores reports. #CNN #News

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  1. This is horrifying. No humans should go through such traumatic events. Praying for the survivors to make a swift recovery. 🙏🙏

    1. @Angie Dorough I see them bring many busses in from Canada every day. Until the American people want better, no more be can do anything.

  2. I used to check for leaks in semi trailers. To do it you’d have to get in and shut the door to check for light entering. It felt like you were baking inside.

    1. this one had a cooling system but the truck got mechanical failure and the driver left it there without turning on the truck which cause no power to the cooling system. That day it was 100F now imagine what was the temperature inside the trailers..!! probably above 140F

    2. the trailer has its own motor to run the generator for the cooling system plus it has its own fuel supply. they call these trailers reefer units…. thay should at least kept the reefer unit running to keep those people alive

  3. When i was a truck driver i got to pick up in mccalin, TX. And when i was getting loaded another truck driver i was talking to got arrested for same thing (smaller scale ) right in front of me. About 1 month later in laredo, tx a guy was caught with 15 people in his trailer, after that about a week later in front of me again in laredo i swear it was the same guy hogtied by a heavy duty army of police, had 25 a couple had to go to hospital by ambulance…. 2007

    1. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Can you think of how a regular person like me could help? It is so horrible to know whole families are dying while I am up North enjoying my kids and having a normal day.

    2. @Brooklynn Graves We so take our lives for granted. Which isn’t a slam but without knowing these things how can we act or help

    3. @Sean O I am afraid you may be right, which leaves me feeling even more sad! The whole clandestine nature of the human trafficking industry makes it nearly impossible to help the victims. I’m from the Western states and our high Indigenous Nations population, especially Indigenous women, are frequently kidnapped and trafficked to we don’t know where!

      I spend time volunteering with the kids and other community members who are left with huge gaps in their support network. We just listen and hold them while they cry, until the tears let the pressure off a bit and they go on. Everything about human trafficking is awful. I hope that the bastards who did this die of untreated syphillis!

  4. This stuff has been going on for years people smuggling human beings mostly for free labor so when this kind of stuff happened these people need to go to jail not just for a minute, because they’re making money off of these desperate people that’s what kind of times we’re living in desperate times where evil people will find you and take whatever they can and sometimes that’s your life

    1. Yes, it’s why anybody saying ‘i can’t believe it….’ is either extremely naive or dishonest.

  5. We don’t even treat cattle as bad as that ! WHY is this still happening ???!!! People that support this kind of behavior should get the death penalty !!

  6. The filibuster is the root problem here. No one can get anything constructive passed because we still have obstructive minority rule.

  7. Y’all are making me queasy.
    Until we deal with the very American citizens and companies who are “ordering” Humans, this won’t stop.

    I worked at a tobacco ranch in Kentucky, if one of the undocumented workers got scooped up, they just ordered another.
    And the undocumented, who were very Catholic, were told religiously by the evangelical bosses that they would be put out on the street and replaced if they didn’t work Sundays.

    The problem is not the victims,
    It’s the buyers.

    While we’re talking,
    Until Our corporations, like caterpillar, Oreo, etc, pay the people a living wage in Mexico, the citizens there are at risk of becoming victims of trafficking because it’s so bad there they are willing to leave their families, and risk jail or death to be trafficked here.

    It’s the ugly side of American’s “supply and demand”, so long as our businesses are not prosecuted for having undocumented workers, they’re going to keep ordering more undocumented, as they will work for 1/2-1/3 of what US citizens are willing to work for. Plus they work 6 sixteen hour days for $5 and hour.

    We are the bad guy.
    Every citizen of the USA who buys the products of undocumented workers has no right to complain of their presence, and is equally to blame for these, and deaths of undocumented Human Beings.

  8. I get the impression that Kate is a wee bit prejudiced against this current administration. I grant you things are not going like I thought they would when POTUS Biden took office. Hopefully, we can get our Congress to start working with each other and get some things accomplished. Hope springs eternal!

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