After fleeing Guatemala, Joaquin arrived in Texas inside the back of a tractor-trailer, just days before 53 migrants died of heat and dehydration in similar circumstances in San Antonio.Joaquin, who was trucked from the Mexican city of Camargo to Rio Grande, Texas in the United States, said he found the man who smuggled him through a large WhatsApp group for migrants. A friend in Guatemala had added him to the group.“You would get all the information you needed about immigration policies or which border was better to get across [into the US],” Joaquin told Al Jazeera, speaking on condition that his last name be withheld. “We really thought that it was going to be easy, because someone shared on a Facebook page that [US President Joe] Biden was letting everyone from Guatemala in.”
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