He didn't know if migrants were inside the truck when it cleared the checkpoint.
Forty-six people were found dead at the scene, authorities said. Of the sixteen people taken to hospitals Monday with heat-related illnesses, five later died.At least 22 were from Mexico, seven from Guatemala and two from Honduras, Roberto Velasco Alvarez, head of the North America department in Mexico's Foreign Relations Department, said on Twitter.authorities discover trucks with migrants inside "pretty close" to daily, Larrabee said.
Migrants typically pay $8,000 to $10,000 US to be taken across the border and loaded into a tractor-trailer and driven to San Antonio, where they transfer to smaller vehicles for their final destinations across the United States, he said.Conditions vary widely, including how much water passengers get and whether they are allowed to carry cellphones, Larrabee said.In October, Mexican authorities reported finding 652 migrants packed into six trailers near the U.S.