Mexico: 178 migrants discovered in a truck

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Sunday, 30 July, 2017 03:52

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Mexico | A truck abandoned in which were 178 migrants from central America was discovered Saturday in the State of Veracruz, in eastern Mexico, authorities have indicated to the State.

These migrants, who wanted to join the United States, have been abandoned by smugglers inside a semi-trailer, said State police in a press release.

This is when they realized that they had been abandoned by their smugglers that some of the migrants are out of the truck “because they were hungry”. They then market and arrived in the city of Tantima, where the inhabitants gave them food and water.

A source mexican military has indicated to the AFP that if the majority of passengers of this truck were women and adult men, there were also minor”.

Quickly taken to a reception centre, these illegals have received medical care prior to the start of their expulsion.

Last week, ten illegal migrants had died in the United States in the trailer overheated a truck parked in a parking lot in San Antonio (Texas), a two-hour drive from the mexican border.

According to the us authorities, up to 200 migrants have been piled up in the truck where 38 people were found. Many of them had previously fled in vehicles that were waiting in the parking lot.

The survivors were told they had to take turns to breathe through a hole. The temperature has been achieved according to the fire department 65 degrees Celsius in the trailer where the air conditioning was not working.

The driver of the truck, James Matthew Bradley, Jr., 60 years of age and a native of Florida, party while migrants tambourinaient on the walls of the trailer, was arrested and charged in the case, which could be part of the mexican drug cartel the Zetas, according to the testimony of a migrant.

One of the migrants found dead was a Guatemalan man, aged 20 years.

This drama shows the “brutality” of smugglers who “have no respect for human life and are only looking for a financial profit”, had estimated last Monday the minister of internal Security, american John Kelly.

Tens of thousands of people from Mexico and central America every year attempt to enter illegally in the United States. In 2003, 19 migrants had died in the same circumstances, in a truck overheated in the south of Texas.

According to us officials, the number of migrants embarking on the perilous trip has declined in recent months, in large part because of the speech anti-migrants from president Donald Trump, in power since January. Mr. Trump is committed to build a wall along the border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration, a controversial project so far blocked by the reluctance of Congress to authorize its funding.

Veracruz and its region have become one of the most dangerous areas for illegal migrants attempting to enter the United States, according to the defenders of human rights, in particular because of cartels like the Zetas who require a right-of-way.