Texas Department of Transportation numbers emblazoned on the side of the truck link it to a small company in the Rio Grande Valley. But the company says the driver is not one of its employees. They say they are victims of “truck cloning," when someone else steals DoT numbers in order to skirt law enforcement.
Bexar County officials told reporters at a news conference that the death toll in the deadliest human smuggling case in modern United States history has risen to 51.