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202330 minPGdocumentary

Those Next to Us

202330 minPGdocumentary

Germán López Rosales shares his traumatic account of a human smuggling operation from Laredo, TX to San Antonio, resulting in 8 migrant deaths.

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Bernhard Hetzenauer

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Germán López Rosales shares his traumatic account of a human smuggling operation from Laredo, TX to San Antonio, resulting in 8 migrant deaths.

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In breathtaking words, Germán López Rosales from Mexico describes his experience of a human smuggling operation from Laredo, TX to San Antonio. Next to Germán locked up inside the cargo area of a tractor-trailer, 8 of the 39 migrants died.

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