# 46+ people, believed to be Mexican migrants, found dead in and near a truck in San Antonio {2022-06-28} **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [June 28, 2022, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018 "2022-06-28T05:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/21 "2022-07-02T07:42:03Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > I don’t know. You would have to tell us what “here” is. Don’t force readers to jump through hoops just to find out what the hell you’re on about. If you are on a desktop computer, pause your mouse over a link to show the URL. If you are on an Android device (and probably an iOS one) long-press on it to reveal the URL. Neither requires that you actually open that URL. If neither opening the link or reading the URL interests you, you are free to move on. I promise that your lawn is undisturbed. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/22 "2022-07-02T10:44:16Z")
FYI, in general the various SDMB themes do a shitty job of highlighting the fact embedded text is a link. Whether on a PC, a tablet, or a phone. If the link is a long phrase, there might be enough color to be obvious. But if the link is a single short word such as “here”, odds are most people will NOT see that it’s a link. I sure won’t. On my theme on my laptop it appears as a very dark navy blue-colored word as against the field of black text on a light gray background. The color difference is just about invisible. In fact in your (D\_G’s) post, I didn’t realize it _was_ a link until after a few people had clicked on it and the little bubble showing the number of folks who’d clicked on it appeared. Which bubble I’m not sure appears in all themes on all devices. Nor do I think very many of our users even know what that bubble icon means. My personal solution when I want to include an inline link is to bold and underline the text. Underline signals a link, as it has since Ye Olden Dayes of webpages, and the bold ensures it stands out from my usual wall of text writing style. Sadly, although you can bold by selecting the text and entering Ctrl-B, to underline you need to manually supply the code [u]Example of underlining that’s not really a clickable url[/u]. to achieve the appearance Example of underlining that’s not really a clickable url. When you put it all together with a real clickable url it looks like this: Click **[here](https://www.google.com)** to go to Google. and is coded like this Click \*\*[u][here]([https://www.google.com](https://www.google.com))[/u]\*\* to go to Google. That’s pretty unmistakable. I take no credit for this convention. I think it was @engineer_comp_geek who turned me onto it back in the vBulletin days. If our goal is to be understood, it’s incumbent on us as writers to make it easy for readers to get our meaning; all of our meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/23 "2022-07-02T11:03:07Z")
Why don’t the coyotes put in some…air conditioning+ventilation? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/24 "2022-07-02T11:06:55Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Why don’t the coyotes put in some…air conditioning+ventilation? - Money. Also the presence of A/C on a cargo trailer is a giveaway. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/25 "2022-07-02T11:36:22Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Why don’t the coyotes put in some…air conditioning+ventilation? In most cases they deliver their cargo just fine without it. It’s only the horror stories we read about. Not the other 25 (total WAG) truckloads that get smuggled successfully every day. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/26 "2022-07-02T20:15:54Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Why don’t the coyotes put in some…air conditioning+ventilation? Apparently they did, as stories are now saying they claim they didn’t know it wasn’t working. > **[Driver of semitruck where migrants died didn’t know AC had gone off, court...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/us/san-antonio-migrant-truck-deaths-air-conditioning/index.html)** > > The alleged driver of a tractor-trailer where sweltering conditions led to the death of 53 migrants this week in San Antonio didn’t realize the truck’s air conditioning unit had stopped working, according to a federal criminal complaint filed... ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/27 "2022-07-02T20:19:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > “Many of the people found inside the vehicle appeared to have been sprinkled with steak seasoning, the official said, in perhaps an attempt to cover up the smell of people as the smugglers were transporting them.” > > I would have been very happy to never have seen this sentence. Yeah, I think I won’t be adding steak seasoning to my food for a while after this story… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/28 "2022-07-02T21:20:05Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Underline signals a link, as it has since Ye Olden Dayes of webpages That isn’t remotely true. Colored but otherwise unaltered text for links has been normal web use (even for single words) for many years. See, for example, a screencap I just made from Wikipedia [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/h5xt5mv.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/ZYl8kjS) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/29 "2022-07-03T14:18:20Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Colored but otherwise unaltered text for links has been normal web use (even for single words) for many years. It is true that colored text alone has been used for links, but colored text is also used for other things. Color + underline is universally understood to be a link, to the point that it not being a link can confuse people. That said, the big problem on the SDMB is just that the default link color is dark enough and the text thin enough that, on some monitors, it doesn’t obviously look like a link. It’s why one of the first tweaks I did was to brighten the color and add an underline to all links. (This also makes it clear if two words in a row are one link or two.) My main solution for everyone else is to mostly use the Onebox for links, but I do also underline all links when I use them in text. I’ve missed links before, and have had others miss them in my posts. For your post, I probably would have just added the Onebox. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/30 "2023-06-29T12:45:20Z")
> **[Four More Suspects Charged in San Antonio Human Smuggling Event That Killed 53](https://thetexan.news/four-more-suspects-charged-in-san-antonio-human-smuggling-event-that-killed-53/)** > > A total of 53 people were killed in the deadliest human smuggling event in the country’s history. > **[US arrests 4 Mexican nationals in 2022 deaths of 53 migrants trapped in hot...](https://apnews.com/article/immigrants-killed-heat-tractor-trailer-smuggling-texas-166d59e8fc8b380742ac90146eac2545)** > > U.S. authorities have announced the arrests of four men they say were part of a human smuggling effort last year that ended in the deaths of 53 migrants, including eight children, who were left in a tractor-trailer in the scorching Texas summer. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018/31 "2025-03-20T13:27:09Z")
> Five other men previously pleaded guilty to charges connecting to the smuggling case, including the driver of the tractor-trailer. > > The Justice Department also announced that another man,[Rigoberto Miranda-Orozco](https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/us/guatemala-arrests-san-antonio-migrant-truck-deaths/index.html), was extradited from Guatemala to face charges for his alleged role in the mass casualty event. Prosecutors allege that Miranda-Orozco charged several migrants, or their friends and family, for the journey – three of whom died in the tractor-trailer. He is facing six federal charges and has not yet entered a formal plea. > **[Jury convicts two men in smuggling operation that killed 53 migrants | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/us/men-convicted-in-san-antonio-smuggling-operation-that-killed-53-migrants/index.html)** > > Two men involved in a smuggling operation were convicted of federal charges Tuesday for their part in a 2022 border crossing attempt that left 53 migrants dead after they were trapped in the back of of an unairconditioned tractor trailer in the hot... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-people-believed-to-be-mexican-migrants-found-dead-in-and-near-a-truck-in-san-antonio-2022-06-28/967018.md?page=1)