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KSAT Q&A: Texas Monthly writer speaks on 2022 San Antonio migrant smuggling tragedy

53 people died after being left in a semitrailer

SAN ANTONIO – Elliott Woods, a writer with Texas Monthly magazine, appeared on the 6 O’Clock News on Wednesday to discuss his reporting on the 2022 San Antonio migrant smuggling tragedy.

Fifty-three people who were who traveling from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, died after being left in a semitrailer.

Woods traveled to the birth countries of the migrants to further explore the victims' stories.

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Ryan Cerna is a digital news trainee at KSAT. Cerna graduated with degrees in Journalism and Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas in 2024. He has worked in newsrooms in Austin and New York City before his time in San Antonio.

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