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Opinion: How Will We Remember Migrants Who Suffer, Strive And Risk Their Lives?

NPR's Scott Simon ruminates about news of 39 people found dead in a trailer in Essex, U.K., and why people would risk their lives for that journey.
Police and forensic officers investigate a truck and refrigerated trailer where 39 bodies were discovered in Thurrock, England.

Thirty-nine people were found dead in a trailer this week in Essex, in the United Kingdom. Thirty-one men, and eight women.

They were discovered in the morning, in a sealed, refrigerated container of the kind that ordinarily transports fruits, vegetables or frozen

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