U.S. charges truck driver, 53 immigrants dead, up to death penalty
June 30 BBC Progress report on migrant deaths in container trailers In San Antonio, Texas, United States on Monday evening, June 27, that Mr. Homero Zamorano, a container trailer driver. was charged with smuggling migrants to death
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Zamorano was arrested by police following dumping a container trailer. and into the bushes near a container trailer. And a top Mexican immigration official said Mr Zamorano from Texas Try to act like one of the surviving victims. following being found by the police
A second suspect, Christian Martinez, was arrested on conspiracy charges. The federal prosecutor stated that Investigators found Martinez following searching through Zamorano’s mobile phone. and found that both of them had been in contact with each other all along
The US Department of Justice announced that Both might face life imprisonment. or death If convicted
Two additional suspects have also been arrested on gun-related offenses. The latter was found linked to the registered address of the container trailer.
While the first death toll When emergency workers rushed to the scene, 46 people were inside and around abandoned container trailers with their doors open, the latest to 53, following seven more died in hospital. Most of them died from heat and dehydration. The latter was locked inside a sweltering truck with no water. It was the worst human trafficking death ever in the United States.
While the Mexican government said 27 people from Mexico died, 14 from Honduras, 7 from Guatemala and two from El Salvador. which is a 13- and 14-year-old boy
Mexican immigration officials say Most of the immigrants likely crossed the border in small groups. They join the group and hide in a secret safehouse in the United States. The immigrants are then packed into container trailers for their next journey.
Officials also found that the migrants inside the container trailer had been sprinkled with pungent. This is part of the method some migrant smugglers use to keep human odors from detecting sniffer dogs.
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