Poverty, jobs and debt drive migrants to suffocating Texas truck


  • World
  • Wednesday, 26 Jul 2017

GUATEMALA CITY/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Delmin Lopez Colomo landed in a San Antonio hospital on Sunday along with 28 other migrants who slipped across the U.S. border and climbed into the back of a truck for a suffocating ride that killed 10 people.

For the 23-year-old Lopez, it was the second attempt to sneak into the United States - in part, so he could pay off debts he got into financing his first bid for a better life.

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