The migrant reportedly survived on scraps of food left behind by customers. Texas HumanSmuggling Immigration Migrants WestTexas
Javier Castro-Rodriguez, a Honduran migrant, was forced to work shifts of up to 12 hours without pay, according to TV station KTAB.
Rodriguez-Castro told investigators he was first transported to a smuggler's stash house, where his passport was taken away, KTAB reports. The migrant then ended up at the noodle shop, where Zhuang allegedly handed over large bills to the smuggler, according to the station. Instead, Rodriguez-Castro lived as an indentured servant, being shuttled back and forth between the restaurant and the stash house in a white van, according to allegations reported on by the station.
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