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This story doesn’t add up. He hired a guy in Kentucky to drive an empty trailer from Iowa to Brownsville, TX? He could load all kinds of Iowa freight to deliver anywhere in Texas first. And he says they do this a lot?

The trailer has a recent model Thermo King reefer on it and he’s calling it non-refrigerated? If the reefer is broken then it’s an even cheaper trailer to go through all this expense of deadheading.

Why is he in Laredo if he’s going to Brownsville? To get trailer washed at a blue beacon? There are several blue beacons in Texas. No one goes out of their way to go to Laredo.

How did he get past the border check between Laredo and San Antonio without the guards and dogs being alerted by all the dying people in the trailer? Why hasn’t border patrol confirmed that the trailer went through that checkpoint? They have all kinds of cameras and sensors. Is some government agency in on it?

100 people and their belongings would be about 20,000 lbs and the driver would know he wasn’t empty. That is about half of a full load.

Too much limited hangout and legitimate journalists are hard to find these days.

"...How did he get past the border check...without the guards and dogs being alerted by all the dying people in the trailer?..."

When I am down that way the guards let their dogs get a good sniff of my truck, going both north and south. They are not sniffing for drugs, but rather human sweat.

So, how could they miss this trailer? Smells fishy.

Yep. And the load would “shift’ as the people move around.

While it has been a long time, I once drove hogs to market. If the pot was half full, the dang things would move around and you would notice as you drove.

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

― Michael Crichton