A gruesome scene was recorded in a truck trailer: 50 migrants lay dead, one on top of the other. The vehicle was found on a road in San Antonio, Texas, United States, on Sunday, June 27.
Several died of suffocation due to the inhumane conditions in which they were transported, according to the authorities. The commotion was such that Ron Nirenberg, mayor of the town, described the event as “a tragedy.”
“I want to express my deepest condolences to the families of Mexican, Guatemalan, and Honduran migrants who died asphyxiated in a trailer in a tremendous misfortune,” said Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico, during a press conference.
His rejection was joined by Joe Biden, president of the United States, assuring that “exploiting vulnerable people for profit is shameful”. The president, likewise, described the episode as “horrible and heartbreaking.”
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The Finding of the Migrants
None of us come to work imagining that
Thanks to a call from a worker in the area, it was learned that cries for help were coming from the truck. The fire officials responded to the desperation and as they passed through the road they saw more bodies that, apparently, indicate that other migrants jumped from the trailer and lost their lives.
Once they arrived at the site they saw the abandoned truck; its driver had fled minutes earlier. The trailer door was ajar, but a corpse was already hanging from it, an indication of what was inside.
“We’re not supposed to open up a truck and see piles of bodies there. None of us come to work imagining that,” said Texas Fire Chief Charles Hood, affected.
A police source assured, in a conversation with the organization ‘Texas Tribune’, that the car did not have the cooling system in operation. “Many of the individuals found inside the vehicle appeared to have been sprayed with steak seasoning,” the subject added.
The smell of the spices, apparently, sought to elude the control of the immigration authorities. The truck is known to have passed checkpoints in Laredo, Texas. However, it is sought to determine if when it crossed the border it was already loaded with people. If so, it should also be established what type of inspection the Immigration Patrol agents carried out, for which they did not notice the dozens of overcrowded migrants.
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Of the 50 dead, 22 are Mexican, seven are Guatemalan and two are Honduran. The other identities are yet to be confirmed. Other people had to be transferred to health centers due to the temperature and dehydration they endured, including four children.
a cloned truck
The driver fled, but was later captured. He will be, along with two other people involved, in charge of determining who or who make up the coyote organization that was trying to pass undocumented people to the United States.
The tracking of the truck’s license plates showed that it was cloned, since the real registered car is several kilometers away, in the city of Álamo.
“Our trailer is just parked in the yard. That one in San Antonio is not ours,” commented Felipe Betancourt, owner of a transportation company, in a conversation with the newspaper ‘San Antonio Express-News’.
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According to local media, the temperature in San Antonio was around 38 degrees Celsius, one of the highest, so the heat inside a car is greater.
The tragedy in Texas is one of the worst recorded in recent years due to the number of deceased migrants, who are joined by the alarming numbers of individuals who try, however they may, to set foot on American soil.
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