SAN ANTONIO — For much of the nearly three years since the Quintana Road human smuggling tragedy, Angie Olivera has worked to ensure the migrant victims are remembered.
She helps maintain the makeshift memorial organized in their honor – 53 crosses, one for each person who died of heat stroke after being transported to San Antonio on a semitruck without working air conditioning in June 2022 – on a weekly basis.
But now, Olivera believes the site has been desecrated. She said she arrived to the southeast-San Antonio memorial Saturday morning to find 51 of the 53 crosses damaged and lying on the ground…