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In reply to the discussion: A little while ago I had one of the saddest phone calls I have ever recieved. [View all]Omaha Steve
(99,620 posts)14. 11 Immigrant bodies found in train car (bodies had been in the rail car at least four months)
I remember this like it was yesterday.
http://columbustelegram.com/news/article_c545d487-b946-5c78-82a7-848805893d5e.html
Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2002
DENISON, Iowa (AP) - A rail car found to contain as many as 11 badly decomposed bodies was sealed and shipped to Des Moines for examination today by criminal investigators and the state medical examiner.
The bodies were found Monday afternoon by workers flipping open the lids of rail cars so they could be cleaned before loading at a grain elevator west of town, Crawford County Sheriff Tom Hogan said.
Jerry Heinauer, Iowa-Nebraska district director for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said he was told by the Mexican consul that the rail car left Matamoros, Mexico, in June. It had been parked in Oklahoma since then, before heading to Denison, about 60 miles northeast of Omaha.
Matamoros, near McAllen, Texas, was once one of the major centers for illegal immigrants seeking to enter the United States. The increased border enforcement in the 1990s shifted many immigrants away from Matamoros and further west.
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A little while ago I had one of the saddest phone calls I have ever recieved. [View all]
Kali
Jul 2012
OP
I'll repeat this story the next time I hear a moron complaining about 'illegals."
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2012
#2
One can only hope he's gone on to somewhere farther north and is busy. But you never know.
freshwest
Jul 2012
#3
You're in AZ. I hope he didn't get a 1070. That's just way too sad. I'd look too.
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#4
I think at this point that would actually be the best news this family could have.
Kali
Jul 2012
#19
The problem of illegal immigration really comes down to one individual story after another.
hedgehog
Jul 2012
#9
What's sad is some redneck could have shot him and then buried him with a tractor.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2012
#12
Still, some people are really good at crafting what they present to the world.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2012
#35
11 Immigrant bodies found in train car (bodies had been in the rail car at least four months)
Omaha Steve
Jul 2012
#14
Now, why isn't the state looking for him? Instead of flying people to HI for Obama's BC?
freshwest
Jul 2012
#29