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A truck driver accused of smuggling dozens of immigrants across the U.S. border was charged Monday in what appears to be an organized operation that a passenger said had connections to a notorious Mexican gang.
Ten passengers died as a result of being trapped in the sweltering cargo bay of a tractor-trailer, where survivors said some had trouble breathing and passed out from the heat.
A criminal complaint stated that James M. Bradley Jr., 60, who has been charged with illegally smuggling foreigners for “commercial advantage or private financial gain,” drove a trailer filled with more than 100 immigrants up I-35 into San Antonio as temperatures soared into the triple-digits. Prosecutors said Bradley knew the trailer’s refrigeration system did not work, and did not stop as the immigrants frantically banged on the trailer’s walls and shouted for help.
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Police found a truck July 22 near a Walmart in San Antonio that contained at least 39 people suspected of crossing the border illegally. Eight of the people died at the scene, and two died later in a hospital. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)
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