The alleged driver of a tractor trailer truck discovered in San Antonio, Texas with dead and dying migrants tried to blend in with the victims when authorities arrived, Mexican immigration officials said Wednesday
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Two men of the men were charged with possessing firearms while illegally residing in the United States. They were arrested after federal agents connected their address to the truck’s registration plate. Inside, agents found an assault rifle, a shotgun, and handguns, according to federal criminal complaints.
“We know that these families came to find new opportunities for their families,” San Antonio Council Member Adriana Rocha Garcia told reporters Monday night. “The city of San Antonio is known as a city with a lot of compassion, so this hurts us all that this has happened here in the city. But the people who have survived who are in hospital, we’re sure that they will be treated with the care most deserved of people who have suffered so much.
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