Smugglers' Blues: Illegal Aliens Found Dead in Truck, in San Antonio

[Bill]

Court docs: Driver of sweltering truck said he didn't know immigrants were inside | khou.com

Each one of these people paid the Zeta drug cartel thousands of dollars to be smuggled illegally into the US. They are all guilty of a criminal conspiracy. They are not victims, they are perpetrators. Their situation resulted from their own illegal choices, and the fact that their is no honor among thieves.

Their crimes will cost the US taxpayers significantly, as we pick up the tab for medical care of all those injured, and pay to ship the bodies of the dead home. We will also be paying to keep most, if not all the survivors who didn't have the strength to scatter into the S.A. community housed, fed, clothed, and provide them ongoing medical care so they can testify against the driver.

[mrvette]

Thing I can't figger is upon seeing the map of the driver's route, headed north into Tejas, then turned south/east to south of Houston, near the border again....seems strange.....how did he get through customs in the first place???

[boracayjohnny]

Something, something, build the fukking wall

[OddBall]

I can live with us giving them medical aid. We're human, not robots. And this happened on our turf so we get to own it. Having said that, it does't mean I think that they get to stay. Patch 'em up and send them home when they recover.

Then; lay all guilt and blame squarely on the Mexican government. Point the finger of accusation at them and very loudly let them know that those deaths would not have happened if the Mexican government wasn't so corrupt and inept at establishing a stable economy that they can't and won't take care of their own.

[onedef92]

The truck driver's fiance lives in Louisville, Ky. Local connection to the story...

Fiancee: Driver in truck trafficking case helped people

Associated Press - Tuesday, July 25, 2017

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - When a long-haul truck driver called his fiancee Sunday from a jail more than 1,000 miles from home, he had only a few minutes to describe the gruesome events that led to him being charged with a crime in which he could face the death penalty.

Darnisha Rose said James Matthew Bradley Jr., who she described as a generous person, claimed he had no idea how so many people - maybe 90 or more - came to be crammed inside his pitch-black trailer in the Texas heat, taking turns to breathe through a hole in the wall. Ten of the immigrants died.

The 60-year-old Bradley, a diabetic with a criminal history that includes a conviction in a felony domestic violence case, told Rose that he’d stopped his truck at a Walmart in San Antonio and went inside to use the bathroom. He claimed that when he returned to his truck, he noticed the trailer rocking back and forth. He said he’d heard nothing before that, though the people in the back later told police they’d been frantically banging on the walls.

Bradley opened the door.

“He said he saw the people in there, laying everywhere,” Rose said Monday from her home in Louisville, Kentucky. “He said he didn’t know what to do, which way to go. He was crying, distraught. He was scared. You could tell it in his voice.”

Court documents say that Bradley did not call 911 after discovering the suffering immigrants in the trailer, even though at least one of them was already dead and others were in such grave condition they had to be hospitalized for dehydration and heatstroke.

Rose defended her fiance as a good man who would always try to help people in need, though she acknowledged he has a criminal history. Documents show his record dates back until at least the 1990s and spans multiple states.

In 1997, Bradley pleaded guilty in a felony domestic violence case in Colorado and was sentenced to two years’ probation, said Rich Orman, chief deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District in suburban Denver. Records indicate supervision of Bradley’s probation was transferred to Gainesville, Florida.

Then in 1998 he was arrested in Ohio and extradited to Colorado for violating his probation, Orman said. Records show that at that time, Bradley also was wanted by a Texas agency for an unknown charge. Another probation violation complaint came in 1999, but Bradley wasn’t arrested and returned to Colorado until 2003. He was sentenced to three years in a halfway house, but he violated terms of that sentence - apparently walking away from the facility - and in 2005 was sentenced to one year in a Colorado prison, Orman said.

He was released in 2007, according to the Department of Corrections, and remained on parole until 2009.

Authorities list Bradley as being from Clearwater, Florida. Rose said Bradley has been staying in Louisville for a couple years.

He grew up in Florida and moved around, spending most of his time on the road. She said he had spent more time in Louisville lately as he recovered from having his leg amputated in the spring.

Bradley had diabetes that he hadn’t properly treated, got a prosthetic leg earlier this month and wanted to get back to work, Rose said.

As for his latest truck trip, she expected him to be gone about two weeks.

Rose apparently missed an earlier call from Bradley, who faces charges of illegally transporting immigrants for financial gain, resulting in death. He told investigators he didn’t call 911 but that he did get back in his truck and called his wife, who didn’t answer.

Bradley often referred to Rose as his wife, though they were not married.

Rose said she tried calling him back after that overnight call, but didn’t reach him. The next time she heard from him was Sunday morning when he called from jail.

She said he did not explain during their brief conversation how the immigrants might have been loaded into his trailer without him knowing about it.

[VITE1]

End means tested welfare and get the American born deadbeats off thier asses and pout taking the jobs the illegals are doing.

[Aerovette]

You know who DIDN'T die?

The over 700,000 people who were legally sworn in as citizens last year.


The people in that trailer died while committing a crime. Sucks being them. No different that bleeding out because you broke into my house and cut yourself on the window.