Texas: 56 Immigrants Found Locked in Freezer Truck

[katty]

cont'd: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/11/D8HHK1I00.html

56 Immigrants Locked in Freezer Truck (AP)
May 11 9:48 AM US/Eastern

LAREDO, Texas

Sheriff's deputies found 56 illegal immigrants locked inside a refrigerated trailer with no driver in sight and no way for the shivering human cargo to escape.

An anonymous call led deputies to the trailer in a warehouse district of Laredo. The key was in the ignition and the trailer's refrigeration was on, but the gas tank was near empty, Webb County Sheriff Rick Flores said.

The 43 men, 11 women and two children had been in the truck for about six hours, Flores said. None was injured, but when deputies found them, they were bunched together in the center of the trailer to avoid the icy walls and to try to stay warm.

"They couldn't get out of there even if they had wanted to," said Melanie Velarde of Crime Stoppers in Laredo. "The walls of the truck were sealed shut to keep the cold in, and the doors were locked and bar-shut from the outside."

[0007]

1. Looks suspicious to me. What a horrible thing to do to any

human being.

[katty]

2. it's utterly disgusting

[jbnow]

3. Glad they were found

before it was too late. Hope they find the driver too.