Photos: Migrants die in Texas trailer tragedy

A 1994 U.S. policy was supposed to deter migration by securing popular access points. Instead, it drives people to enter by more hazardous means, such as being crammed in hot tractor-trailers.

In communities thousands of miles away from San Antonio, devastated family members are beginning to come forward to share stories about their loved ones.

As families of the more than 60 people packed into a tractor-trailer began to confirm their worst fears and talk of their relatives, a common narrative of pursuing a better life took shape from Honduras to Mexico.

Simple advice to stay near the door may have saved Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás from the deadly fate that befell 53 other migrants when they were abandoned in a semi-trailer last week in Texas.

A 1994 U.S. policy was supposed to deter migration by securing popular access points. Instead, it drives people to enter by more hazardous means, such as being crammed in hot tractor-trailers.