A truck with 46 dead people on board was found in San Antonio, in Texas. There were also 16 people still alive who were taken to hospital. A massacre of immigration that took place in the American state. Three people have been stopped and the driver of the truck is being sought. He allegedly abandoned the vehicle shortly before the discovery of the victims by agents of the Homeland Security Investigation, the agency that deals with cases of human trafficking.
They all are migrants trying to illegally enter the US from Mexico. It is the worst immigration drama, certainly in recent years, but perhaps ever. In 2003 19 illegal migrants were found dead in a truck: the temperature inside had reached 78 degrees. In 2017, ten migrants died after being trapped in a truck in the same area of ​​the US. These days in Texas there are very high temperatures (up to 40 degrees) and there are many attempts to cross the border in extremely difficult conditions.
The mayor of San Antonio, Ron Nirenberg, said at the press conference: “It is a tragedy. There are 46 people who had a family and were looking for a better life ». Local and federal authorities are investigating the crime. Texas Governor Greg Abbott attacked US President Joe Biden: “These deaths are from Biden: they are the result of deadly open border policies and show the consequences of his refusal to implement the law,” he wrote in a tweet. .
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People still alive, according to the former rescuers, it was hot to touch them. They had signs of heat exhaustion and dehydration. The vehicle had no air conditioning and there was no water on board.
Immigration remains one of the open issues in the US. In May there was a record number of 239,000 irregular migrants detained in the US for illegal entry in the United States. There were 1.73 million border arrests in 2021, mostly people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
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Source: Vanity Fair