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Complaint details text messages between organiser and driver in San Antonio migrant truck disaster

Christian Martinez said he was unaware that the air conditioning was not working in the truck

The Independent UK

Archbishop of San Antonio warns of “a culture of death”

In an interview with The Texas Tribune, the Roman Catholic prelate cited the school shooting in Uvalde, an intensified narcotics trade and the deaths of 53 migrants in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio. He urged comprehensive immigration reform.

The Texas Tribune

TribCast: San Antonio tractor-trailer tragedy, the end of Roe v. Wade and the Jan. 6 hearings

For this week’s episode, Patrick speaks with Tribune reporters about the latest Texas headlines on immigration, abortion and the Jan. 6 investigation.

The Texas Tribune

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Driver in the San Antonio tragedy didn't know the truck's AC failed, complaint says

The suspected driver of the truck packed with migrants, including 53 who died earlier this week in San Antonio, was unaware that the air conditioning unit had failed, according to court documents.

WEKU

In a small village, prayers and hope for missing migrants

The wait for news has been agonizing for families from Mexico to Honduras whose relatives were being smuggled through south Texas this week

The Independent UK

Families of migrants who died in Texas human trafficking tragedy remember loved ones who sought better lives

Wilmer, 14, left his native Guatemala last month with dreams of learning English and reuniting with his older brother in the United States. Instead, he would die alongside more than 50 other migrants in the deadliest US human smuggling tragedy on record.

ABC News

San Antonio trailer deaths: Driver Homero Zamorano in court as photos show migrant truck at border

The 45-year-old truck driver is charged with one count of alien smuggling resulting in death

The Independent UK

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Guatemala, Mexico families mourn missing teenage sons after migrant tragedy

Some of the youngest migrants thought to have died in a suffocating trailer in Texas this week set off from poor towns in Guatemala and Mexico, following in the footsteps of relatives seeking a better life in the United States.

Reuters

A “cloned” 18-wheeler made it easy for smugglers to pass through the border, say state officials vowing to crack down

A federal agency estimates that about 75 trucks are reported nationally each year with copied or stolen state and federal ID numbers, which industry experts say is likely a significant undercount.

The Texas Tribune

Spurs pulling qualifying offer on Lonnie Walker, making him unrestricted free agent

Shams Charania: The Spurs are pulling the qualifying offer on Lonnie Walker IV, making him an unrestricted free agent, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Expect a strong market for Walker immediately. Source: Twitter @ShamsCharania What's the buzz ...

USA Today Sports Media Group

Driver of doomed San Antonio truck smuggling migrants was high on meth: Texas congressman

Family members say accused driver used drugs and had past arrests

The Independent UK

Inseparable cousins and high school sweethearts: Everything we know about the victims who died in the Texas migrant truck

‘My children leave a void in my heart,’ said the Honduran mother who lost two of her sons in the San Antonio tractor incident

The Independent UK

US official: Migrants who died cleared inland checkpoint

A U.S. official says migrants were inside a tractor-trailer when it cleared an inland Border Patrol checkpoint, later ending up in San Antonio where 53 people were found dead in the deadliest known smuggling attempt in the United States

The Independent UK

Editorial: On this July 4th, can US reconcile its immigrant roots with its anti-immigrant politics?

Within hours of the news that more than 50 migrants had died in the back of a tractor-trailer near San Antonio on Monday, the men, women and children having been baked alive in the blistering Texas heat, anti-immigrant Republicans quickly descended into blaming President Joe Biden. Not because he had…

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Editorial: San Antonio migrant deaths must shake the conscience of this nation

We cannot comprehend the agony that engulfed more than 50 migrants trapped and left to die in an overheated tractor-trailer in Texas. Every detail that emerges in news reports only compounds the horror.

The Independent UK

San Antonio sheriff rips into Gov Abbott for turning migrant trailer tragedy into ‘one big campaign stunt’

‘I have watched as Governor Abbott painted this humanitarian crisis as some sort of enemy invasion’

The Independent UK

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives

As families of the 67 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned in Texas began to confirm their worst fears and talk of their relatives, a common narrative of pursuing a better life took shape from Honduras to Mexico

The Independent UK

San Antonio trailer deaths - latest: Driver Homero Zamorano in court as photos show migrant truck at border

The 45-year-old truck driver is charged with one count of alien smuggling resulting in death

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Los Angeles Times

Suspected driver of truck packed with suffocating migrants pretended to be a victim, may have been on drugs

SAN ANTONIO — The alleged driver of a truck packed with migrants who died in the sweltering Texas heat this week initially tried to pass himself off as a victim to evade authorities and may have been under the influence of narcotics during the smuggling attempt.

Tribune News Service

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders truck inspections at border after migrant deaths

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday ordered state police to resume inspecting trucks entering Texas from Mexico after 53 migrants died in a tractor-trailer abandoned near San Antonio.

Sports Illustrated

Who Wins the Dejounte Murray Trade?

The Spurs dealt their All-Star guard to the Hawks to build for the future. But is the fit right for Murray in Atlanta?

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Heat, humidity a perilous mix in immigrant deaths

An expert says the combination of heat and humidity would have quickly created life-threatening conditions inside the packed, un-airconditioned tractor-trailer where dozens of immigrants were found dead this week

USA Today Sports Media Group

Trae Young ‘ecstatic’ about Dejounte Murray trade

Chris Haynes: I'm told Trae Young is "ecstatic" to have Dejounte Murray join the Hawks' backcourt with the organization believing the star pairing will unlock another level of Young's game. Source: Twitter @ChrisBHaynes What's the buzz on Twitter? ...

The Texas Tribune

U.S. charges driver and 3 others in deaths of 53 migrants found in tractor-trailer

It was the single deadliest migrant smuggling case in U.S. history, according to a Homeland Security official. Citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were among the victims.

The Independent UK

Kamala Harris criticises Texas governor for going ‘straight to politics’ after 53 migrants die in San Antonio

The Vice-President said in an NPR interview that the ‘broken’ immigration system ‘was decimated’ by the Trump administration

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