The driver of the truck and two other people were arrested, Texas MP Henry Cuela told the Associated Press. He said the truck had passed a Border Patrol checkpoint northeast of Laredo, Texas, at Interstate 35. He did not know if any immigrants were inside the truck when he cleared the checkpoint. Investigators have located the truck at a San Antonio home and arrested two Mexican men for possession of a firearm, according to criminal charges filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The complaints made no specific allegations about the deaths. The bodies were discovered Monday afternoon on the outskirts of San Antonio when a city official heard a cry for help from a truck parked on a lonely street and found the gruesome scene inside, said Police Chief William McManus. The temperature in the area approached 38 degrees on Monday. The Chavez dynasty and Cesar Mediola walk away after seeing the scene where the victims were discovered on Monday. (Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman / The Associated Press) Forty-six people were found dead at the scene, authorities said. Of the sixteen people taken to hospitals on Monday with heat-related illnesses, five died later. Most of the dead were men. Authorities said they were most likely involved in a smuggling operation. US President Joe Biden on Tuesday described the deaths as “frightening and heartbreaking”.
Immigrant deaths increased last year
By Tuesday afternoon, medical examiners had probably identified 34 of the victims, but were taking additional measures, such as fingerprints, to confirm the identities, said Béxar County Commissioner Rebecca Clay-Flores. Among the dead, 27 are believed to be of Mexican descent based on the documents they brought, said Ruben Minoodi, Mexico’s consul general in San Antonio. Several survivors remained in critical condition with injuries such as brain damage and internal bleeding, he said. A cross and candles are kept at the spot where a tractor-trailer with immigrants was discovered outside, outside San Antonio, Texas, on June 28, 2022. – U.S. authorities opened a criminal investigation Tuesday after 50 immigrants packed in a suffocating trailer died. in Texas, with President Joe Biden blaming professional smugglers for the tragedy. (Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty Images) At least seven of the dead were from Guatemala and two from Honduras, Roberto Velasco Alvarez, head of North America’s Mexico External Relations Department, said on Twitter. The death toll was the highest ever from an apparent smuggling attempt in the United States, according to Craig Larabi, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations in San Antonio. South Texas has long been the busiest area for illegal border crossings. U.S. authorities are discovering trucks with immigrants in “very close” to everyday life, Larrabee said. Immigrants typically pay $ 8,000 to $ 10,000 to be transported across the border and loaded onto a tractor-trailer and driven to San Antonio, where they are transported in smaller vehicles to their final destinations in the United States, he said. Conditions vary widely, including the amount of water passengers receive and whether they are allowed to carry cell phones, Larrabee said. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 557 deaths at the southwest border in the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, more than double the 247 deaths reported last year and the highest since it began monitoring in 1998. Most were related. with heat exposure.
The decision of the Supreme Court on asylum is expected soon
Immigrants have been evicted more than two million times under a health mandate rarely used in the past, invoked by the Donald Trump administration in March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began to rage. The Title 42 principle denies migrants the opportunity to seek asylum and be channeled into the refugee system, but encourages repeated efforts because there are no legal consequences for their arrest. 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. 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. 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.
