Texas Monthly: "Inside the deadliest immigration-related disaster in American history."
Elliott Woods in the Texas Monthly tells an amazingly detailed story on a horrible event in modern immigration history:
"The catastrophe that unfolded that day would result in the deadliest immigration-related disaster in modern American history. Fifty-three passengers perished, including 26 Mexicans, 21 Guatemalans, and 6 Hondurans. The incident briefly captured international headlines, but this story—based on more than two years of reporting—is the first full account of that awful event, its complex causes, and its wrenching aftermath. . . .
[A]s the trial revealed, a smuggling network composed of ordinary people who were often reckless and incompetent had managed to slip through one of the best-funded and most technologically sophisticated border-policing systems in the world. As with countless similar operations, the perpetrators had gotten away with their scheme over and over, succeeding far more often than they failed—until the day they failed in the most horrific way."
