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Texas woman arrested for allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants hidden inside box truck
A Texas woman was arrested on Wednesday after Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers discovered 25 illegal immigrants crammed into the back of a box truck, hidden behind mattresses and inside a crawlspace. DPS said 43-year-old Silvia Patricia Santamaria, of Houston, was arrested and charged with 25 counts of human smuggling and has since been booked into the Live Oak County Jail. Just after 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, a concerned citizen approached a DPS trooper at a truck stop along Interstate 37 in George West, Texas, regarding a minor crash that happened in the parking lot. When the trooper contacted the driver of a white 2005 International box truck involved in the crash, later identified as Santamaria, she allegedly told the law enforcement official she was driving to Houston after picking up mattresses in Alton, Texas. 17 Illegal Migrants Discovered Crammed In Rv, Sedan In Sweltering Arizona Heat DPS said the trooper noticed inconsistencies in Santamaria's travel plans and asked for consent to search the truck. Read On The Fox News App With assistance from the George West Police Department, the trooper discovered 25 illegal immigrants inside a small corner of the box truck who were attempting to hide behind 30 mattresses and inside a crawl space within the truck's wall, DPS said. DPS added that there was no ventilation inside the truck. Alleged Human Smugglers Arrested In Texas After Hiding Migrants Inside Hollowed Hay Bales The group of immigrants comprised of 12 males, 12 females and an 11-year-old child. All the migrants were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, India, Cuba, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, DPS said. The illegal immigrants were removed from the truck and received medical evaluation before being referred to the U.S. Border Patrol. Driver In Texas Migrant Smuggling Run That Led To The Deaths Of 53 People Pleads Guilty In 2022, San Antonio officials discovered 51 dead immigrants inside an abandoned tractor trailer. Officials said at the time they believed the truck was abandoned after it experienced mechanical problems. A city worker discovered the trailer after hearing a cry from inside the trailer. At least 46 migrants were found dead at the scene and more died in article source: Texas woman arrested for allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants hidden inside box truck
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
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Studio71 Signs Strategic Distribution Partnership With Digital Creator ‘The Mannii Show' (EXCLUSIVE)
Studio 71 has inked a strategic partnership agreement with digital creator The Mannii Show to handle distribution and ad sales. The new partnership will include use of Studio71's Burbank Production Studio for video production, in addition working with The Mannii Show on its long-form content strategy. Led by comedian Mannii Santamaria, The Mannii Show said it has netted more than 15 billion lifetime views, with content including sketch comedy and the long-form mockmuentary series 'MJ's World,' in which Santamaria plays all the characters. More from Variety Why YouTube Exited the Original Content Business: 'We Weren't Good at Picking Content' YouTube's Super Creators: How MrBeast, Rhett & Link, Michelle Khare, Adam W and More Use the Platform to Power Their Businesses YouTube at 20: How the Video Colossus Launched the Creator Economy and Turned From Hollywood Foe to Friend 'I never imagined when I started posting to that it would lead to all this success, and I'm very excited to level up with Studio71,' said Santamaria. Through the partnership, Studio71 said it aimed to 'introduce The Mannii Show to new brand advertisers, leveraging its global reach and strong relationships with major media buyers,' according to its press release. 'As digital video consumption continues to evolve, Studio71 has successfully supported top-tier creators with the resources and expertise to expand their creative vision while exponentially increasing their revenue potential.' Studio71 also looks to transition Santamaria's short-form content into additional long-form deal to bring The Mannii Show to Studio71 was managed by Studio71 associate director of creative partnerships Ben Lieberman. 'We are thrilled to partner with The Mannii Show on its next stage of growth,' said Studio71 exec VP of creator partnerships Joseph Marchese. 'Mannii's audience continues to expand rapidly, and we look forward to leveraging our Burbank production facilities and ad sales team to support his move into new content formats.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Oscars 2026: First Blind Predictions Including Timothée Chalamet, Emma Stone, 'Wicked: For Good' and More What's Coming to Disney+ in March 2025
The Guardian
19-02-2025
- Politics
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Juan arrived in Australia to a stocked pantry and kind faces. The government pilot that allowed it is here to stay, too
For Juan Santamaria, arriving on the other side of the world to a pantry filled with food from his native Venezuela was a warm welcome on a cold day. A criminal lawyer in his home country who fled fearing for his life, Santamaria came to Australia with his parents and sister under a government pilot program for community groups to sponsor refugees to resettle in Australia. 'We were able to arrive in Australia with temporary accommodation, where we found a fully equipped house, including a pantry stocked with typical food from our country. 'From the very first moment we arrived we received the solidarity and willingness to help from the Australian community.' Arriving on an unusually frigid summer evening in Melbourne, Santamaria's sponsorship group had even negotiated with an airport chaplain to help smooth the passage through Australia's customs and immigration. 'Meeting [the group] is something we will never forget: they welcomed us with banners and a hug that conveyed a lot of trust and confidence that we would be fine.' The federal government will announce Thursday morning that the pilot program which brought the Santamarias to Australia – the Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot (Crisp) – will now be made a permanent part of Australia's humanitarian migration program. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email Under the Crisp model, community groups volunteer to support the resettlement of a refugee family (nominated by the UNHCR for resettlement), offering assistance from the fundamental – temporary housing, assistance with enrolling in school or registering for Medicare – to the daily extras – navigating a public transport system or buying a phone. The assistant minister for citizenship and multicultural affairs, Julian Hill, says that through the pilot program, more than 500 refugees had been supported by church, community and sporting groups to settle in cities and towns across Australia. 'Community refugee sponsorship has rightly enjoyed support right across the parliament and in communities because it works. Crisp will now be a permanent and valued feature within Australia's overall humanitarian program,' Hill told the Guardian. The permanent program would set a target of 200 refugees resettled from 2026, with potential to expand. 'Thank you to the many Australians who have made the pilot a success, welcoming people to Australia and helping them to set up their new life here.' Santamaria says the Crisp sponsorship had smoothed his family's resettlement in a country where they otherwise knew nobody, and didn't speak the language at the time. 'We were fortunate to … connect with people like our group who have a desire to help, not only with the logistics but also with all the emotional support and affection they have shown us through their dedication to us. 'The sponsorship is for 12 months, but in our case, with our group, we have gained friends for life.' Sign up to Breaking News Australia Get the most important news as it breaks after newsletter promotion Guy Abrahams, one member of the group which sponsored the Santamaria family, says the benefits have flowed both ways. 'The embrace by a community of people coming from difficult times is perhaps the most reassuring and comforting contact newly arrived refugees can have. 'But for them to be able to step into our homes and be treated effectively as members of our families, to be shown respect and love, has been incredibly fulfilling and meaningful for all of our group as well.' Abrahams says one of the most valuable things sponsors help with is trust. 'It's one thing to know about the refugee crisis in an abstract form, but it's quite another to have personal engagement with refugees who have gone through the most horrific trauma. To sit with them and bear witness to what they've gone through. To be a stable and reliable figure that they can learn to trust. Because for a lot of refugees, the ability to trust – a government, a community, neighbours – is a luxury they have not been afforded.' Abrahams' sponsorship group is part of the Jewish social justice network Stand Up. 'We all share refugee history in our own families,' he says, 'and it always felt important to pay that forward, to support people just as our ancestors and relatives were.' Lisa Button, the chief executive of Community Refugee Sponsorship Australia, has welcomed the government's announcement. It is recognition, she says, of the 'appetite from everyday Australians to get involved'. Button says while Crisp is currently 'modest in scale … there are so many ways in which everyday citizens, clubs, faith groups, schools and businesses could play a role if invited to be involved. 'We need all hands on deck in responding to the scale of global forced displacement and the Crisp offers a robust yet flexible way for people to become involved in any part of Australia.'
