50 people die in a truck while being smuggled into Texas

From Morning Report, 8:23 am on 29 June 2022

US President Joe Biden says fifty people dying in a truck in Texas shows the need to take down the multi-billion dollar criminal smuggling industry.

The migrants were trapped in the truck, with no signs of water or cooling, during a heatwave.

This is one of the most fatal incidents of human smuggling along the US - Mexico border in recent history.

Our correspondent Caroline Malone spoke to Morning Report.