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46 Migrants Found Dead Inside Truck

"A horrendous scene was discovered by police in San Antonio, Texas, in a tractor-trailer where at least 46 illegal aliens were found dead and the death toll could climb higher." – Blaze Media

DailyWire.com – More than 40 illegal immigrants were found dead inside an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer on the southwest side of San Antonio, Texas, while authorities rushed 16 others to nearby hospitals, local media reports.

Live video from News 4 San Antonio shows fire trucks and police at the 9600 block of Quintana Rd., near New Laredo Hwy on the southwest side.

[This Texas location — a trash-strewn rural road behind a junkyard — is 157 miles north of the Laredo border crossing, and less than five miles from San Antonio’s Texas Vista Medical Center, which very likely would have provided all the immigrants with free health care. – HH]

KSAT News reports several ambulances coming and going into the scene.

The incident comes approximately 24 hours after San Antonio police bust a human smuggling operation at a local home where 14 illegal immigrants were found ranging in ages from 19 to 33.

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Authorities told local media officers received a call Sunday night regarding a person held inside the home at gunpoint.

Eric Hightower, Deputy Chief, SAPD said according to News 4 San Antonio:

“It appears that they had been part of a potential human smuggling operation and the best we can determine; they had been there for perhaps a couple of days.” 

“They had not been fed or cared for. They had not been given water or food or anything like that and they were obviously trying to get some help.”

According to local media, officers, who had also executed a search warrant on the home, say they were given medical care before being handed over to Homeland Security Investigations … READ MORE. 

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