Death toll now 50
Deadliest migrant smuggling on US soil
Nearly 100 people were packing in the trailer
No A/C. No water.
Three people are currently in custody.
Marcelo Ebrard, the secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, said that the deceased include 22 people from Mexico, seven from Guatemala and two from Honduras
Rep. Henry Cuellar
said on Twitter that the truck traveled through the Laredo checkpoint.
60 members of SAFD who responded to the scene will undergo critical incident stress debriefing.
More than 50 migrants died after they were left in a tractor-trailer on a Southwest Side road — a “horrific human tragedy” that’s being called the largest mass casualty event in San Antonio history, authorities said.
www.ksat.com
Company says truck with dozens of dead people inside was “cloned,” according to report
The victims included migrants from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. Most were men; five were minors.
www.texastribune.org
The truck in San Antonio had the same color and identifying numbers from the federal Department of Transportation and the Texas DOT as a _________ Trucking and Harvesting truck, the
Alamo-based* trucking company’s owners said. But the cloned truck does not bear the company’s logo, as the business’ other trucks do.
One of the owners said the company’s truck has not been to San Antonio recently and has been hauling grain from Harlingen to Progreso.
“Our [refrigerated trailer] is sitting right in the yard,” Felipe ________ Jr. told the Express-News. “That one in San Antonio is not our trailer.”
* Alamo-based refers to Alamo, Texas a small town in the Rio Grande Valley about 200 miles from San Antonio.
Someone labeled the truck containing the migrants with the same color and
identifying numbers from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Texas DOT as a truck that their company owns.
Of the 53 dead, twenty-two were from Mexico, seven from Guatemala and two from Honduras, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said. The rest of the migrants are still being identified.
www.expressnews.com
Truck was possibly parked in the area around noon. (Discovery of bodies was at around 5:50 PM) In WaPo article:
Graphic information about how migrants were attempting to disguise themselves from authorities
In recent arrests, over 70 people have been smuggled in one truck. (Migrants were not harmed, in those but the sheer numbers in the trucks appears to be increasing)
In 1987, 2003 and 2017, groups of migrants died of heat and dehydration in Texas after being trapped in stifling containers. Hundreds more die alone or in smaller groups as desperation drives them to take fatal risks.
www.texastribune.org
(Good grief.......)
