Young adults, children in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives
Fifty-three of those migrants left in the sweltering heat on the outskirts of San Antonio had died as of Wednesday, while others remained hospitalized. The tedious process of identifications continues, but families are confirming their losses.
Already together for nearly a decade, the young couple spent recent years applying for jobs with companies. But time and again they were denied. Caballero did not feel like she could hold them back anymore, including 24-year-old Paz Grajeda, who lived with Alejandro in his mother's home and who Caballero referred to as her daughter-in-law though they had not married.
Caballero last spoke to them Saturday morning. They told her they had crossed the Rio Grande at Roma, Texas, were headed to Laredo and on Monday expected to head north to Houston. The deaths of her sons and Paz Grajeda, who was like a daughter, are devastating."My children leave a void in my heart," she said."We're going to miss them a lot."
Hours after hearing that audio message, a neighbor told the family there had been an accident in San Antonio and they feared the worst, Tepaz said through a translator. Wilmer's father, Manuel de Jesús Tulul, could not stop crying Wednesday. He said he had no idea how the boys would get to Houston, but never imagined they would be put in a trailer. His son had left school after elementary and joined his father clearing farmland for planting.
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