‘A free land for everyone’: San Antonio residents mourn tragic loss of lives

Many recalled their own experience of migrating to the US, calling for better immigration practices and protection of asylum seekers

Tony Bokanian got a call on Monday afternoon from a neighbor who told him police were massed near his used auto parts business on the south-western edge of San Antonio in southern Texas.

Bokanian went out to look. That was when he saw the bodies - dozens of lifeless men, women and children heaped behind a lorry on an obscure backroad while swarms of emergency vehicles arrived.