Officials correct San Antonio death toll in ‘horrific’ human trafficking case to 9.
Nine immigrants, not 10, have died after they were trapped inside a tractor-trailer at a Walmart parking lot, officials confirmed Sunday afternoon.
An initial report that two more people had died was the result of hospital error, according to Homeland Security, who asserted that just one more person had died, putting the death toll at nine. All the victims so far are adult males, officials said.
Several people are still in critical condition at local hospitals.
Eight immigrants were found dead inside the closed trailer just after midnight Saturday. More than two dozen others, the only ones left of the estimated 100 who started the trip, were taken to area hospitals, many in serious to critical condition due to the heat.
The driver of the vehicle, 60-year-old James M. Bradley Jr. of Florida, was booked into a federal jail in San Antonio on Sunday morning for his alleged role in what U.S. Attorney Richard Durbin called “an alien smuggling venture gone horribly wrong.”
The truck was parked at a back corner of the Walmart parking lot at 8538 S. Interstate 35 and Texas 16 on the Southwest Side at least since Saturday evening. The eight immigrants are believed to have died as a result of heat exposure/asphyxiation, according to a San Antonio Police Department news release, but an official cause of death will be determined by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office.
h/t Bruce
Please don’t tell me the coyote was taking them
to a Syrian restaurant for dinner.
This never would have happened if… (You know the rest)
I doubt they seasoned them properly.
First of all they’re not immigrants, they had nothing whatsoever to do with the immigration process. They’re criminals…flat out. Stop using the term “immigrant” with these dead beat usurpers.
Right? What LEGAL immigrant person would be in an unrefrigerated tractor trailer with 30 other people?!
Ya know, Texas in July is only hot due to global warming…
Wait…what?
“an alien smuggling venture gone horribly wrong.”
Really?
Maybe if this kind of thing is advertised in Mexico it will cut down on the illegal-alien-invading-rat-people invading us.
Let em go to Canada, or Frangistan, or Germany … just don’t stop at Walmart …
izlamo delenda est …
Most people would be astonished if they knew the true magnitude of what all has been going on.
On the radio I’ve already heard protesters screaming that WE are committing human rights abuses because nobody would have died so horrifically if we let them just walk in.
Wanna bet all these criminals get to stay in the U.S. after they recover?
Landscapers in a box?
Too soon?
Stuff them back in the trailer and deport them.
Drudge said they were “cooked”. Anybody for Mex tonight?
Building the wallnwill save thousands of lives. The border, especially in the desert areas, is littered with corpses. This is drop in the bucket.
Really Sad deal, There were Children Watching their Fathers Die befere their Eyes ! So often the Young Girls are Raped and Killed for Fun .
They indeed are law breakers, but Still Humans ! The Coyotes Need to Be Hung Facing South at The Border !!!
Isn’t San Antonio a sanctuary city?
I’d like to see the consumer side of human trafficking in the U.S. Who are these people being brought in for?
@ AA, someone has to scrub the toilets of celebrities.
We’ve been waiting for this new Viet Namese restaurant to open. I heard yesterday the place won’t open due to an ICE raid. Every last one here illegally from 3 Asian countries. Some of the women were being trafficked but that’s ok with libshits.
You can thank the goddamn liberals for giving them benefits and then them wanting to stay or invade.
Scuse me, but did anyone FORCE those mexicans into that truck?
Or did they pay for that privilege?
They got what they paid for.
They got what they wanted.
They made it to Walmart in San Antonio.
All their dreams were fulfilled.
So – where’s the “tragedy?”
izlamo delenda est …