'VIP trips' cost migrants their lives in TX tragedy

2 years ago
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Some migrants are paying thousands of dollars to secure what smugglers promise to be a comfortable trip that avoids the worst dangers of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. Among them, 19-year-old, Pablo Ortega - who ended up dead in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas in what is the deadliest U.S. smuggling incident in recent history. Lisa Bernhard produced this report.

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