‘Lack of Controls’ in US Border Contributes to Horrible Migrant Deaths: Mexican President
The devastating situation in the migrants’ home countries and the status of the U.S.-Mexico border were to be blamed for the tragic incident that happened in San Antonio, Texas, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday.
At least 50 migrants died after being stuck inside a sweltering semi-trailer in San Antonio in one of the deadliest human trafficking incidents in recent history, U.S. and Mexican officials said on Tuesday.
The illegal immigrants were discovered dead inside the truck’s trailer on the outskirts of the Texas city on Monday, where temperatures swelled to a high of 103 Fahrenheit.
Members of law enforcement investigate a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, on June 27, 2022. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images)
Some 22 Mexicans, seven Guatemalans, and two Hondurans were identified among the dead, Mexico Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Twitter on Tuesday. There was no information on the nationality of the other 19, Mexican officials said.
More than a dozen people were transported to hospitals for heat stroke and exhaustion, including four minors, but no children were among the dead, the San Antonio Fire Department said.
‘These Deaths Are on Biden’
The Mexican president offered condolences to the relatives of this catastrophe and said poverty in the migrants’ home countries and the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border contributed to the tragedy.
“These unfortunate events that of course have to do with the situation of desperate poverty of our Central American brothers, and of Mexicans,” he said during his daily briefing. “[It] happens because there is also human trafficking and lack of controls, in this case, on the border with the United States and inside the United States.”
López Obrador’s comments echoed what Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said after the incident.
Abbott criticized President Joe Biden’s border policies vehemently and said the deaths of
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