Mexican Smugglers Are Increasingly Using Semitrailers to Transport Migrants

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Smugglers in Mexico are increasingly using overloaded semitrailers to transport people trying to enter the U.S., often with deadly consequences, an investigation from Noticias Telemundo found.

The situation lays bare the human toll of modern migration amid the growing and increasingly dangerous human smuggling industry.

Noticias Telemundo, the Latin American journalism consortium CLIP and other local partners reconstructed the journeys and routes taken by 170 cargo trucks involved in either crashes or other incidents in Mexico in the past six years.

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