A Mexican immigration official says that in the chaotic minutes after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering in the Texas heat, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors
Roberto Marquez of Dallas adds a flower a makeshift memorial at the site where officials found dozens of people dead in an abandoned semitrailer containing suspected migrants, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in San Antonio. SAN ANTONIO — — In the chaotic minutes after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering under the Texas sun, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors, a Mexican immigration official said Wednesday.
Identifying the dead has been challenging because some were found without identification documents and in one case a stolen ID. Remote villages where some of the migrants came from in Mexico and Central America have no phone service to reach family members and fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by the governments involved.., many of them taking perilous risks to cross swift rivers and canals and scorching desert landscapes.
Authorities were looking into whether the truck had mechanical problems when it was left next to a railroad track. The driver was apprehended after trying to disguise himself as one of the migrants, Garduño said. Temperatures in San Antonio on Monday approached 100 degrees Fahrenheit , and those taken to the hospital were hot to the touch and dehydrated, authorities said.
Felicitos Garcia, who owns a small grocery store in the remote community of San Miguel Huautla in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, said the mother of Jose Luis Vasquez Guzman, who was hospitalized in Texas, had gone to the state capital to learn more about her son’s condition and the whereabouts of his cousin, who is believed to be missing.
Haneydi Antonio Guzman, 23, was safe in a mountain community more than 1,300 miles away from San Antonio when she began receiving messages from family and friends anxious over her fate. There is no phone signal there, but she has internet access.
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