At least 53 people were found dead, “stacked” inside a tractor-trailer truck near San Antonio, Texas, in what authorities believe may be the deadliest human trafficking incident in modern US history. Another 16 people, including four children, were taken to local hospitals under different conditions, according to officials. Police arrested three people. The US Department of Homeland Security is conducting an investigation. A city worker heard a cry for help from an abandoned truck before discovering the gruesome scene Monday, according to San Antonio Police Chief William McManus. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden called the “tragic loss of life” in Texas “frightening and heartbreaking,” while San Antonio Mayor Ron Nuremberg called it a “terrible human tragedy.” Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrad confirmed that the nationalities of some of the victims who died in the three-digit truck had been identified. The victims include 22 Mexicans, seven Guatemalans and two Hondurans. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is scheduled to give a press conference at the southern border on Wednesday afternoon, where his office says it plans to address the “continuing response to President Biden’s growing border crisis.”
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Kamala Harris criticizes Texas governor for “going straight into politics” after 53 immigrants die in San Antonio
In an interview with NPR on Wednesday, Democrats asked co-presenter Asma Khalid questions about the overthrow of Roe v Wade before the couple turned to discuss issues south of the border. “I’m sure you saw that last night there were at least 50 immigrants who lost their lives in a trailer in San Antonio, Texas,” Khalid said. “I wanted to know from you – are there any new plans you have for tackling the issue through administrative powers – through executive action – that you all think you can not do?” Late Monday night, just hours after news broke that dozens of people were trapped inside a drowned trailer with no signs of water or air conditioning to combat triple-degree indoor temperatures, the Texas governor wrote in Twitter that responsibility for The incident lay at the feet of the Biden government. Johanna Chisholm has the details. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 04:00 1656556227
What we know about the victims of the San Antonio smuggling tragedy
The two cousins returned to the tiny village they grew up in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye to what has been passed on for generations of immigrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region of Oaxaca. It would not be the first trip to the US-Mexico border for Javier Flores Lopez, now in his 30s, who left Cerro Verde years ago and went to Ohio, where his father and a brother live and worked in buildings. He returned home to see his wife and three young children for a while, said one of his cousins, Francisco López Hernández. This time he was returning to the United States with another cousin, José Luis Vásquez Guzmán, 32, who was going for the first time and hoped to reunite with his older brother, who was also in Ohio. While everyone was aware of the dangers, countless people from Cerro Verde had crossed the US-Mexico border safely with the help of smugglers, so it was shocking, López Hernández said when he learned that his cousins and dozens of other immigrants had been abandoned. a tractor-trailer that inflates under the Texas sun. Josh Marcus June 30, 2022 3:30 p.m. 1656554427
EXPLANATION: Heat, humidity is a dangerous mixture in migrant deaths
The combination of heat and humidity would quickly create life-threatening conditions inside the crowded, non-air-conditioned tractor-trailer, where dozens of migrants were found dead, an expert said. Although it is not clear how long people were in the trailer, it would probably only take an hour or less for temperatures to rise to 125 degrees Celsius or higher, said Jennifer Vanos, an assistant professor of climate and health at her university. Arizona State who has studied child deaths in cars. The death toll rose to 53 on Wednesday, two days after the tractor – full of 67 people – was found abandoned on the edge of San Antonio, marking the country’s deadliest smuggling incident on the US-Mexico border. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 03:00 1656552627
In the midst of tragedy, a case of misidentification
Haneydi Jazmin Antonio Guzmán informed her friends and family that she was “well by the grace of God” on her Facebook page. “Do not believe anything, this is a lie, this credential [her voter ID]”It was stolen a year ago,” she said after media reports named her one of the survivors of the trailer tragedy. Ms Antonio Guzmán, from Escuintla, Guatemala, said she was not the person who was treated and clarified that her identity – found in a person in the trailer tragedy – was stolen a year ago. Read the full story by Maroosha Muzaffar. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 02:30 1656550827
San Antonio Funeral Home to help victims of smuggling disaster
A funeral home in San Antonio is coming in to help those who lost loved ones in the horrific incident of human trafficking on Monday. Compean Funeral Home is working to help return the bodies of those lost in caskets so that their families can make proper burials. “This is just the beginning, I can tell you that. This will be a marathon. “This is not going to be a sprint,” Gregory Compean owner told Click2Houston. “Whenever human remains are shipped out of the country, they must be properly embalmed in accordance with all the rules and regulations in the state of Texas in order to be accepted by that other state.” The owner of the funeral home said he helped in a similar process in 2003, when 19 migrants died in a smuggling accident. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 02:00 1656549627
31-year-old from a rural area of Mexico among survivors of a trailer tragedy
Jose Luis Vasquez, a 31-year-old from a native, rural highland in southern Mexico, is among the survivors of Monday’s Texas smuggling tragedy. Mr Vasquez, now in a San Antonio hospital, had recently left the Mexican military but had not notified his family of his travel plans. “I guess it was the same story as always,” Aquilino Guzman’s uncle told Reuters. “Looking for better opportunities.” Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 01:40 1656549402
Four accused of trailer deaths
Four people, including the alleged truck driver Homero Zamarano Jr., have been charged with the deaths of immigrants in San Antonio, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The 45-year-old is accused of an extraterrestrial smuggling charge resulting in death. He is from Brownsville but is based in Pasadena, Texas, according to officials. He could face life or death. Federal investigators said they identified Mr Zamarano by checking security equipment and that he was driving the truck in which 53 migrants were eventually killed. Three others were also charged, including Christian Martinez, who allegedly discussed the smuggling plan in conversation with Mr Zamarano, and Mexican nationals Juan Claudio and Juan Francisco D’Luna Mendez, who were found because their address was used for registration of the tractor trailer. who smuggled immigrants. Josh Marcus30 June 2022 01:36 1656548118
San Antonio Medical Examiner Dismisses Strange Report on Dead Immigrants Covered in Steak Spices
The San Antonio medical examiner clarified one of the strangest points related to the discovery on Monday of a tractor-trailer full of dead and seriously injured immigrants. Initial media reports suggested that steaks were covered with spices instead, as a way to rule out a possible search by search dogs or other surveillance methods at a border inspection post. However, city officials say there is no evidence of such a tactic in the bodies of the 53 immigrants who lost their lives in the tragedy, the New York Times reports. Josh Marcus30 June 2022 01:15 1656546618
The sister of the survivor of the smuggling tragedy speaks openly: “I never thought this would happen”
A Guatemalan immigrant living in the United States says her sister was one of those who survived Monday’s tragic disaster in San Antonio by smuggling migrants. A woman identified only as Emeralda told Guatemala’s Prensa Libre newspaper that she had last heard from her sister, a young woman, via WhatsApp as the truck full of immigrants was passing through Laredo Texas. At that point, her sister said the trip had gone well and she would call when she could. Eventually, Esmeralda continued, she received a shocking message from another member of the trip. “She told me, ‘Sorry, she was in the trailer,’” the woman told Prensa Libre. “I never thought this would happen and he confirmed it to me twice.” However, after worrying about the worst, he received another update: “They saved your sister and she is fine.” “I do not know her state of health, how she is, I only know that she escaped,” Esmeralda said. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 00:50 1656544762
San Antonio Mayor Says Washington ‘Failure’ to Pass Immigration Reform ‘Shows’ Tragedies
The discovery of a tractor-trailer full of dead migrants in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, leaves many wondering who is responsible for causing such a terrible situation near the border. According to Ron Nyrenberg, the mayor of San Antonio, part of the responsibility belongs to Congress. There has been no substantial reform of immigration from Washington for decades, and Mr Nirenberg says this stalemate is having “tragic consequences”. “Congress’ inability to reform our immigration system causes – or manifests – in many ways that are simply tragic,” he told CNN. Josh Markus June 30, 2022 00:19
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At least 53 people were found dead, “stacked” inside a tractor-trailer truck near San Antonio, Texas, in what authorities believe may be the deadliest human trafficking incident in modern US history. Another 16 people, including four children, were taken to local hospitals under different conditions, according to officials. Police arrested three people. The US Department of Homeland Security is conducting an investigation. A city worker heard a cry for help from an abandoned truck before discovering the gruesome scene Monday, according to San Antonio Police Chief William McManus. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden called the “tragic loss of life” in Texas “frightening and heartbreaking,” while San Antonio Mayor Ron Nuremberg called it a “terrible human tragedy.” Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrad confirmed that the nationalities of some of the victims who died in the three-digit truck had been identified. The victims include 22 Mexicans, seven Guatemalans and two Hondurans. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is scheduled to give a press conference at the southern border on Wednesday afternoon, where his office says it plans to address the “continuing response to President Biden’s growing border crisis.”
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Kamala Harris criticizes Texas governor for “going straight into politics” after 53 immigrants die in San Antonio
In an interview with NPR on Wednesday, Democrats asked co-presenter Asma Khalid questions about the overthrow of Roe v Wade before the couple turned to discuss issues south of the border. “I’m sure you saw that last night there were at least 50 immigrants who lost their lives in a trailer in San Antonio, Texas,” Khalid said. “I wanted to know from you – are there any new plans you have for tackling the issue through administrative powers – through executive action – that you all think you can not do?” Late Monday night, just hours after news broke that dozens of people were trapped inside a drowned trailer with no signs of water or air conditioning to combat triple-degree indoor temperatures, the Texas governor wrote in Twitter that responsibility for The incident lay at the feet of the Biden government. Johanna Chisholm has the details. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 04:00 1656556227
What we know about the victims of the San Antonio smuggling tragedy
The two cousins returned to the tiny village they grew up in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye to what has been passed on for generations of immigrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region of Oaxaca. It would not be the first trip to the US-Mexico border for Javier Flores Lopez, now in his 30s, who left Cerro Verde years ago and went to Ohio, where his father and a brother live and worked in buildings. He returned home to see his wife and three young children for a while, said one of his cousins, Francisco López Hernández. This time he was returning to the United States with another cousin, José Luis Vásquez Guzmán, 32, who was going for the first time and hoped to reunite with his older brother, who was also in Ohio. While everyone was aware of the dangers, countless people from Cerro Verde had crossed the US-Mexico border safely with the help of smugglers, so it was shocking, López Hernández said when he learned that his cousins and dozens of other immigrants had been abandoned. a tractor-trailer that inflates under the Texas sun. Josh Marcus June 30, 2022 3:30 p.m. 1656554427
EXPLANATION: Heat, humidity is a dangerous mixture in migrant deaths
The combination of heat and humidity would quickly create life-threatening conditions inside the crowded, non-air-conditioned tractor-trailer, where dozens of migrants were found dead, an expert said. Although it is not clear how long people were in the trailer, it would probably only take an hour or less for temperatures to rise to 125 degrees Celsius or higher, said Jennifer Vanos, an assistant professor of climate and health at her university. Arizona State who has studied child deaths in cars. The death toll rose to 53 on Wednesday, two days after the tractor – full of 67 people – was found abandoned on the edge of San Antonio, marking the country’s deadliest smuggling incident on the US-Mexico border. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 03:00 1656552627
In the midst of tragedy, a case of misidentification
Haneydi Jazmin Antonio Guzmán informed her friends and family that she was “well by the grace of God” on her Facebook page. “Do not believe anything, this is a lie, this credential [her voter ID]”It was stolen a year ago,” she said after media reports named her one of the survivors of the trailer tragedy. Ms Antonio Guzmán, from Escuintla, Guatemala, said she was not the person who was treated and clarified that her identity – found in a person in the trailer tragedy – was stolen a year ago. Read the full story by Maroosha Muzaffar. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 02:30 1656550827
San Antonio Funeral Home to help victims of smuggling disaster
A funeral home in San Antonio is coming in to help those who lost loved ones in the horrific incident of human trafficking on Monday. Compean Funeral Home is working to help return the bodies of those lost in caskets so that their families can make proper burials. “This is just the beginning, I can tell you that. This will be a marathon. “This is not going to be a sprint,” Gregory Compean owner told Click2Houston. “Whenever human remains are shipped out of the country, they must be properly embalmed in accordance with all the rules and regulations in the state of Texas in order to be accepted by that other state.” The owner of the funeral home said he helped in a similar process in 2003, when 19 migrants died in a smuggling accident. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 02:00 1656549627
31-year-old from a rural area of Mexico among survivors of a trailer tragedy
Jose Luis Vasquez, a 31-year-old from a native, rural highland in southern Mexico, is among the survivors of Monday’s Texas smuggling tragedy. Mr Vasquez, now in a San Antonio hospital, had recently left the Mexican military but had not notified his family of his travel plans. “I guess it was the same story as always,” Aquilino Guzman’s uncle told Reuters. “Looking for better opportunities.” Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 01:40 1656549402
Four accused of trailer deaths
Four people, including the alleged truck driver Homero Zamarano Jr., have been charged with the deaths of immigrants in San Antonio, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The 45-year-old is accused of an extraterrestrial smuggling charge resulting in death. He is from Brownsville but is based in Pasadena, Texas, according to officials. He could face life or death. Federal investigators said they identified Mr Zamarano by checking security equipment and that he was driving the truck in which 53 migrants were eventually killed. Three others were also charged, including Christian Martinez, who allegedly discussed the smuggling plan in conversation with Mr Zamarano, and Mexican nationals Juan Claudio and Juan Francisco D’Luna Mendez, who were found because their address was used for registration of the tractor trailer. who smuggled immigrants. Josh Marcus30 June 2022 01:36 1656548118
San Antonio Medical Examiner Dismisses Strange Report on Dead Immigrants Covered in Steak Spices
The San Antonio medical examiner clarified one of the strangest points related to the discovery on Monday of a tractor-trailer full of dead and seriously injured immigrants. Initial media reports suggested that steaks were covered with spices instead, as a way to rule out a possible search by search dogs or other surveillance methods at a border inspection post. However, city officials say there is no evidence of such a tactic in the bodies of the 53 immigrants who lost their lives in the tragedy, the New York Times reports. Josh Marcus30 June 2022 01:15 1656546618
The sister of the survivor of the smuggling tragedy speaks openly: “I never thought this would happen”
A Guatemalan immigrant living in the United States says her sister was one of those who survived Monday’s tragic disaster in San Antonio by smuggling migrants. A woman identified only as Emeralda told Guatemala’s Prensa Libre newspaper that she had last heard from her sister, a young woman, via WhatsApp as the truck full of immigrants was passing through Laredo Texas. At that point, her sister said the trip had gone well and she would call when she could. Eventually, Esmeralda continued, she received a shocking message from another member of the trip. “She told me, ‘Sorry, she was in the trailer,’” the woman told Prensa Libre. “I never thought this would happen and he confirmed it to me twice.” However, after worrying about the worst, he received another update: “They saved your sister and she is fine.” “I do not know her state of health, how she is, I only know that she escaped,” Esmeralda said. Josh Marcus 30 June 2022 00:50 1656544762
San Antonio Mayor Says Washington ‘Failure’ to Pass Immigration Reform ‘Shows’ Tragedies
The discovery of a tractor-trailer full of dead migrants in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, leaves many wondering who is responsible for causing such a terrible situation near the border. According to Ron Nyrenberg, the mayor of San Antonio, part of the responsibility belongs to Congress. There has been no substantial reform of immigration from Washington for decades, and Mr Nirenberg says this stalemate is having “tragic consequences”. “Congress’ inability to reform our immigration system causes – or manifests – in many ways that are simply tragic,” he told CNN. Josh Markus June 30, 2022 00:19
