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Tractor-trailer used by smugglers was 'death trap' for 51 migrants

By James Dobbins, Miriam Jordan and J. David Goodman
New York Times·
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The tractor-trailer sat on the worn-out asphalt of Quintana Road, a debris-strewn urban hinterland between train tracks and salvage yards. Its rear doors hung loose and open, and for a distance along the baking pavement several bodies lay dead in the roadway.

At first, the truck drew little notice against the backdrop of a Monday afternoon in industrial San Antonio, Texas. That was the idea: it was meant to be one leg in a sprawling and mostly hidden smuggling network

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