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San Antonio has been in the news recently, on July 22 at midnight police responded to a call of a possible human smuggling case. Sure enough police arrived to the scene and opened up a Reefer trailer, containing a multitude of human trafficking victims suffering from severe dehydration and deadly heat strokes. According to the driver, the trailer had a cooling system that must have broke down. The victims were discovered after one of the sufferers managed to escape from the locked trailer at Wal-Mart parking lot and immediately approached an employee asking for water. The employee then called authorities and police unveiled eight dead victims and as many as 30 victims who were hospitalized. Reports from many witnesses say that many victims

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