Nine months ago, on June 27, 2022, an abandoned box truck was discovered by the side of the road in southeast San Antonio containing the bodies of more than fifty dead and dying migrants. The victims, including nationals of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, were killed by extreme heat and by the neglect of their driver, who fled the scene. Grotesquely, many of the dead had been sprinkled with steak seasoning before they died, perhaps to misdirect K-9 units at the border. The tragedy was the deadliest ever in our era of policed borders, which make successful clandestine border crossings as dangerous and inadvisable as possible.This spring, San Antonians are encouraged to contemplate this carnage in an incongruously serene environment by sitting inside The…
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