The area where the truck and its victims were found is a common place where ‘coyotes’, people smugglers who help immigrants cross the border illegally
At least 46 immigrants have been found dead in an abandoned truck in Texas. The bodies were found in the luggage compartment and in the surrounding area. More than a dozen people traveling in the same vehicle survived and were treated at area hospitals Monday night. The driver had fled and authorities have not yet found him.
The vehicle was found by agents of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of the Customs and Border Police (ICE, known as “la migra” in Spanish immigrant communities), on a low-traffic highway near Interstate Highway 35, one of the the main communication and trade routes between Mexico and the US The nearest border crossings are at Del Río, 250 kilometers from San Antonio, and Eagle Pass, 230 kilometers from the city where the truck was found.
The area where the truck and its victims were found is a common place where passengers are dropped off by ‘coyotes’, people smugglers who help migrants cross the border illegally. It is common for these criminal organizations to facilitate the transfer of immigrants from various points in Central America and Mexico to the border, instruct them to cross illegally and pick them up on the other side of the border to cross. contribute to important populations. centers to let them have their way.
At this time, authorities have not determined the cause of death, but the heat in this area of South Texas could be a determining factor in immigrant deaths. Thermometers yesterday crossed 38 degrees in the middle of a month of June with temperatures close to historical records.
The heat was the cause of another similar tragedy in 2003 in Texas, in Victoria, 185 kilometers southeast of San Antonio. The driver of a truck transporting undocumented immigrants did not turn on the cooling system on loading behavior and when he opened it after finishing the trip, he found 19 dead as a result of dehydration and overheating. Another ten people died in a similar fashion, including in San Antonio, in July 2017. About two hundred people traveled in that truck.
“These deaths are due to Biden,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Twitter, providing initial details about the victims. “They are the result of his tragic open borders policy. They are showing the deadly consequences of their refusal to obey the law.”
The incident bathes in tragedy the immigration crisis facing the Biden administration. In the spring months and early summer there is always an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants, but this year it breaks all records, above the already record levels of last year. Border police arrests are on track to cross the two million threshold, up from 1.73 million in 2021. Nearly 240,000 immigrants were detained in May alone, a record.
Source: La Verdad
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