HORROR! 46 Migrants Perish in Sweltering Heat Abandoned by Driver

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Forty-six people were found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer in the sweltering Texas heat in the latest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants who were smuggled across the border from Mexico into the U.S. Sixteen people were hospitalized, including four children. This is a tragedy of the worst sort, one that should NEVER happen. It is obvious that human smugglers would not be able to operate if we had a sensibly regulated border. The death toll of would be immigrants is way up and this incident definitely draws attention to this ongoing problem.

It is insanity to think that the best way to address this disaster would be to let anyone from anywhere come into the country unchecked. But what would stop criminals running from the law in Mexico and central America from coming to America to start a new life and do horrible things to American citizens? Or worse yet terrorists from all over the world? Migration must be regulated.

Being abandoned on a back road to die of a heat stroke is a really bad way to go. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said the 46 people who died had “families who were likely trying to find a better life.” “This is nothing short of a horrific human tragedy,”. He is right about the horrific human tragedy...but how do we know it was ONLY families trying to find a better life? We’ll probably never know. And what of the wretch who left them to die?

This is one of the deadliest tragedies in recent decades from people being smuggled across the U.S. border from Mexico.

Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back against lawmakers who blamed the Biden administration for the deaths. But who is to blame, then? It’s pretty hard to blame Trump or Putin this time, although I imagine that is coming. Regardless of where you stand on the wall, If we had a wall, that truck would still be in Mexico, and all those people would still be alive. The driver of that truck ran away because he knew he was going to jail, and he left all those people to die.

Among those who died, 22 are from Mexico, seven are from Guatemala and two are from Honduras. The other 15 are unknown at the time of this report. South Texas has long been the busiest area for illegal border crossings. Migrants ride in vehicles through Border Patrol checkpoints to San Antonio, the closest major city, from which point they disperse across the United States.

The truck had apparently come from a crossing near Laredo, Texas. The county judge said,

“They had just parked it on the side of the road,” “Apparently, they had mechanical problems and abandoned the truck.

Officers arrived to find a body on the ground outside the trailer and a partially opened gate to the trailer. Three people were taken into custody, but it was unclear if they were connected with human trafficking,

16 were taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses, 12 were adults and four were children, said Fire Chief Charles Hood. The patients were hot to the touch and dehydrated, and no water was found in the trailer, he said.

“They were suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion,” Hood said. “It was a refrigerated trailer, but there was no working AC on the truck.”

Those in the trailer were part of a migrant smuggling attempt into the US, and the investigation was being led by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, Heat poses a serious danger, particularly when temperatures rise severely inside vehicles. Weather in the San Antonio area was mostly cloudy Monday, but temperatures approached 100 degrees. Some advocates drew a link to the Biden administration’s border policies. Aaron Melnick, the policy director at the American Immigration Council, wrote that he had been dreading such a tragedy for months... Truck smuggling is a way up,” he wrote on Twitter.

Texas Gov. Abbott, was blunt in a tweet about the Situation: “These deaths are on Biden. They are a result of his deadly open border policies.”

Ineffective border policy has led to millions of attempts to enter the country illegally, exacerbating the problems

U.S. Customs and Border Protection have reported 557 deaths on the southwest border in the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, more than double the 247 deaths reported in the previous year and the highest since it has been since tracking began.

While this years death tally is unknown, search and rescue missions are almost triple from past years. We can only pray that politics are put aside and that common sense border policy is implemented. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.