Two charged in connection with dozens of migrants found dead in sweltering Texas truck

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 28 (Reuters) - Two Mexican nationals were charged in U.S. federal court on Tuesday in connection with a deadly human smuggling attempt in which at least 51 people perished after being trapped inside a sweltering tractor-trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas.

The two Mexican defendants, who were arrested following Monday's incident, were charged with possessing firearms while in the United States illegally, according to court documents and U.S. authorities.

The deceased migrants, 39 men and 12 women, were discovered on the outskirts of the south Texas city, where temperatures swelled to a high of 103 Fahrenheit (39.4 Celsius), in one of the deadliest human trafficking tragedies in recent history.

Authorities called to the scene found the truck parked next to railroad tracks, with bodies inside the vehicle and strewn over a couple of blocks, after the rear door of the trailer had been opened, a local law enforcement official told Reuters on Tuesday.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/death-toll-migrants-found-truck-texas-reaches-50-mexico-says-2022-06-28/

[mahina]

1. Those poor souls. Peace to them and many years of prison to their murderers.

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[3auld6phart]

2. Bloody terrible

I know the repukes scream about the southern border. This looks
like an open gate there.How in the bloody hell did this happen ?
Bent Border Agents ? Danm weird . Just bloody sad and terrible.

[secondwind]

4. Border is over 2,000 miles long... it's difficult to keep them from coming over...

[3auld6phart]

8. Thanks

Second wind. Read the article to the end . The T & T units are
US registered. The poor souls probably walked across the border
and met the mules. A American porous border for sure. My Irish born Canadian
Grandfather did that way back in 1890. Him and a buddy jumped ship
some where in Uruguray and walked North .The ship was an
American whaler.

[maxsolomon]

6. Pack the last 10' of the semi trailer with legitimate, heavy cargo.

Have a manifest showing where the cargo is headed.

Unless Customs x-rays the trailer, how would they know there are migrants in the rest of the trailer?

[LeftInTX]

3. The driver of the vehicle will be probably be arraigned tomorrow

He was so high on meth, he had to be hospitalized...

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Truck-dead-immigrants-San-Antonio-17270944.php

[ancianita]

7. And only on gun charges. Perhaps they could inform on their bosses responsible for the trafficking

to start with, since none of the dead can help. There's more money in human trafficking than drug trafficking. There's so much death and suffering from this global level of capitalist corruption, I hope they can map out the trafficking network (coyotes, maybe?) and not just catch the drivers. It's probably a jurisdictional problem, and so maybe it's hard to do on the other side of the border, which could be full of all kinds of informal networks.

[ChazII]

9. This morning on MSNBC

the cartels were being blamed.

[ancianita]

10. Not surprising. Huge numbers of C. American campesinos & poor are driven out by cartels who traffic

arms out of Florida, using cartel gangs to help global corporations take over land there. And, of course, create minority rule corporate governments. Money laundering ensues.

[maxsolomon]

5. "In recent history"?

There have been higher body counts previously? I don't remember one greater than 51 dead.

Maybe migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya, but from Mexico to the US?