When police ran x-ray scanners over two cargo trucks at a checkpoint in southeastern Mexico on Tuesday, they made a surprising discovery: Inside the trailer were the ghostly shadows of 513 migrants — some suffering from dehydration — packed together in near-suffocating conditions. The police released an image of the harrowing scan, which shows how migrants sat in tight bundles or stood clutching cargo straps for hours of clandestine travel from beyond Mexico’s border with Guatemala. Their capture thwarted what appeared to be one of the largest single shipments of illegal migrants found in recent years, The Associated Press reported. And it drew attention to the increasing use of x-ray…
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