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Officials Fear More Deaths Among Migrants Found In Truck

NPR
Published July 24, 2017 at 1:11 PM EDT
San Antonio police officers investigate the scene where nine people were found dead in a tractor-trailer loaded with at least 30 others outside a Wal-Mart store in stifling summer heat in what police are calling a horrific human trafficking case, Sunday, July 23, 2017, in San Antonio. (Eric Gay/AP)
San Antonio police officers investigate the scene where nine people were found dead in a tractor-trailer loaded with at least 30 others outside a Wal-Mart store in stifling summer heat in what police are calling a horrific human trafficking case, Sunday, July 23, 2017, in San Antonio. (Eric Gay/AP)

A 60-year-old Florida truck driver is being held in the deaths of 10 migrants who were found in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio early Sunday morning. Officials described a horrific scene in the truck, where they found dozens of people near death in temperatures over 170 degrees.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with Jace Calderas, CEO of XFed Consulting and a former deputy field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Antonio, about the business of human smuggling.

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