“As the temperatures rose, those people banged, they scratched, they clawed and they yelled out for their humanity. Fifty-three lives lost,” Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. said.
On the one-year anniversary of the deaths of 53 migrants in San Antonio, officials announced additional arrests they said were tied to a human-smuggling organization.
According to the indictment, the smugglers went by nicknames like “Rilay,” “Cholo,” “Cowboy,” and “El Don,” and and are alleged to have transported people from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. Zamorano, followed by Gonzales-Ortega, then drove the 18-wheeler along I-35 into San Antonio and along the way he updated the other smugglers of their progress through text messages, the indictment read.
Jaime Esparza, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, speaks on behalf of the multiagency task force that has been conducting an ongoing investigation into the human smuggling incident that left 53 migrants dead after being trapped in the back of an abandoned tractor-trailer on June 27, 2022.“The allegations in this indictment are horrifying.
“Not to play the blame game, but we’ve known this is a problem in years past, yet here we are still,” Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said.
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