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    Scores Of Migrants Rescued From Trailer In Mexico

    A total of 178 people were rescued Saturday from a tractor-trailer in Mexico in an apparent smuggling incident that mirrors a similar incident earlier this month where 10 people died in Texas.
    by Ravenna Koenig Jul 30, 2017 1 minute
    Activist and migrants of the Casa del Migrante de Ciudad Juarez and Comite de Solidaridad para los Migrantes Detenidos protest for the deaths of migrants on a trailer in Texas last week, at Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, on July 28, 2017.

    More than 170 migrants were rescued Saturday from the back of a tractor-trailer in the Mexican state of Veracruz, according to Mexican authorities.

    The truck, carrying 178 mostly adult migrants, was The truck was abandoned by the driver after a crash in the town of Tantima, some 400 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, according to

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