Before human-smuggling disaster in San Antonio, 5 rigs caught illegally ferrying immigrants this year
Sam Owens, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographerIt was nearly Christmas 2021, and all the Louisiana trucker had to do was get the trailer he was hauling from Laredo to San Antonio. He’d collect $50,000 for the one load — as much as some truckers make in a year.
Craig Larrabee, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in San Antonio, said the number of cases of smugglers using trucks to ferry immigrants hasn’t changed much in recent years. But lately they’ve been crowding more people into their trailers. A few hours later, he allegedly abandoned the sweltering trailer — its air conditioning unit appears to have stopped working — on San Antonio’s Southwest Side in an incident that claimed the lives of 53 migrants.
A La Salle County deputy found the rig with its trailer doors open and as many as 30 immigrants standing nearby, the sheriff’s office reported on Facebook.As police arrived to provide help, some immigrants scattered into the brush.
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