A distant cry led a worker to a tractor-trailer abandoned on a desolate country road under the blazing Texas sun on the outskirts of San Antonio Monday evening.
The death count of undocumented migrants who were abandoned in a scorching-hot trailer in Texas rose to 51 Tuesday, as President Joe Biden blamed "criminal" professional smugglers for the tragedy.
The archbishop of San Antonio offered prayers for some 50 people dead and more than a dozen survivors found June 27 in sweltering conditions in a truck, part of the worst smuggling operation in U.S. history.