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No Air Behind Deadly Smuggling Truck
A Mexican immigrant laborer Luciano Alcocer and 31 others are packed into a 53-foot trailer bound for Wisconsin and Chicago as Border Patrol checkpoints loom. Heat rises to 150 degrees inside the freight hold while passengers beg for air and water. The ordeal ends in a federal case, with "TO BE CONTINUED" as the narrative moves toward trial.
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Chaparral
N.M
Sprague
el Paso
Dallas
Luciano Alcocer
Mexico City
United States
Ciudad Juarez
Rio Grande
Piequinto Cabrera
Guillermo Gallo
Mexico
Wisconsin
Alcocer
Jose Gaston Ramirez
Cuernavaca
Chicago
Edson Rojas
Kansas
Cabrera
Gallo
Veracruz
Kentucky
New York
la Muerte
Border Patrol
Deck
Dock
Valdes
Alccer
Odessa
Sprague and Dock
Garth Brooks
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