“The initial reports are that this tragedy was caused by smugglers or traffickers of people who do not care about the lives they risk and exploit to make a profit,” he said in a statement shortly after arriving in Spain on the second stop of a trip to Europe. . . Fifty people died after being left in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio and authorities said they were most likely being transported as part of a smuggling operation. A city worker heard a truck cry for help on a lonely back street in San Antonio just before 6 a.m. Monday and discovered the gruesome scene, said San Antonio Police Chief William McManus. The temperature in the area approached 38 degrees on Monday. Forty-six people were found dead near the site, authorities said. Another four died later after being taken to hospitals, said Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolf, the county’s top elected official. Wolff said Tuesday that authorities believe the truck came from Laredo, a border town more than 240 miles south. “They just parked it on the side of the road,” Wolff said. “He obviously had mechanical problems and left it there. The sheriff thinks he came across Laredo.” Among the dead were 39 men and 11 women, he said. Of those, 22 were from Mexico, seven from Guatemala and two from Honduras, Roberto Velasco Alvarez, head of North America at Mexico’s External Relations Department, said on Twitter. “Our condolences,” he wrote on Twitter. “All those responsible will be brought to justice.” CLOCKS Tragic discovery in an abandoned trailer in San Antonio:
46 Immigrants Found Dead in Abandoned Trailer in San Antonio, Texas
Forty-six people were found dead in a tractor-trailer that had been abandoned on a remote back road in San Antonio, Texas. Sixteen people were hospitalized, including four children.
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At least four people remain in critical condition, according to hospitals. Among them were a 23-year-old woman in serious condition and a teenager in critical condition at San Antonio University Hospital, Wolff said. Those taken to hospital were hot and dehydrated and no water was found in the trailer, said fire chief Charles Hood. The tragedy quickly became a vehicle for political attacks on the Biden government. Spectators stand near the spot where the bodies were found inside the vehicle. (Eric Gay / The Associated Press) “These deaths are for Biden,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, wrote on Twitter a few hours after the horrific discovery. “They are the result of his deadly policies on open borders. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.” Biden’s statement criticized “the political position surrounding the tragedy.” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at Air Force One – where Biden was flying between summits in Germany and Spain – that the government was focusing on the victims and holding the smugglers accountable. “The truth is that the borders are closed, and that is partly why you see people trying to make this dangerous journey using smuggling networks,” he said. “Our prayers are with those who have tragically lost their lives, their loved ones and those who are still fighting for their lives. We are also grateful for the prompt work of federal, state and local first responders.”
The White House is trying to move away from the policies of the Trump era
Many of former President Donald Trump’s strict border policies remain in place – including Title 42, which prevents many immigrants from seeking asylum during a public health emergency caused by the coronavirus, even when many of the US has lifted strict restrictions on COVID-19. The Title 42 principle denies migrants the opportunity to seek asylum and be channeled into the refugee system, and therefore encourages repeated efforts because there are no legal consequences for arrest. Immigrants aboard a caravan bound for the United States are presented June 8 at a makeshift camp in Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico. (Pedro Pardo / AFP / Getty Images) Biden’s government made plans to end Title 42 in late May, but a federal judge blocked the plan in response to legal action by 24 states. The Biden government’s decision was made without adequate consideration of the impact the move could have on public health and law enforcement, a Louisiana-based judge has ruled. Title 42 is one of the two surviving Trump-era policies to prevent asylum at the border, along with the Immigration Protection Protocols (MPPs), better known as “Staying in Mexico.” The US Supreme Court heard arguments in the spring about the program that the Biden government is trying to end and is expected to issue an opinion on the case on Wednesday. The MPP forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in the US Immigration Tribunal. Activists have argued that Mexico is not a safe third country under immigration law, while opponents have argued that it outsources enforcement and therefore leverages much of US policy on a foreign country. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 557 deaths at the southwest border in the 12-month period ended Sept. 30, more than double the 247 deaths reported last year and the highest since it began monitoring in 1998. the heat exposure. LISTEN Journalist Jacob Soboroff on his book on the Trump family-era family separation policy: The Current23: 53 Jacob Soboroff on families separated at the US border Jacob Soboroff’s new book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, takes us back to detention centers where children were forcibly separated from their parents after crossing the US border – and sheds light on what officials knew about the psychological impact would have in children. Other tragedies have occurred long before immigrants arrived at the US border. In December, more than 50 people were killed when a semi-trailer full of migrants overturned on a highway in southern Mexico. In October, Mexican authorities reported finding 652 migrants packed in six trailers near the U.S. border. They were stopped at a military checkpoint.
