A Texas official says two more migrants from the San Antonio trailer tragedy have died, raising the death count to 53.
Police Chief William McManus said a city worker at the scene was alerted to the situation by a cry for help shortly before 6 p.m. Monday.Victims have been found with no identification documents at all and in one case a stolen ID. Remote villages lack phone service to reach family members and determine the whereabouts of missing migrants. Fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by different governments.
The bodies were discovered Monday afternoon on the outskirts of San Antonio in what is believed to be the nation's deadliest smuggling episode on the U.S.-Mexico border. More than a dozen people were taken to hospitals, including four children. Three people have been arrested. Flowers and candles are placed the area where an abounded truck was found with 46 dead migrants and several more died after hospitalized in San Antonio, Texas, United States on June 28, 2022.
Eva Ferrufino, a spokesperson for Honduras’ foreign ministry, said her agency was working with the Honduras Consulate in south Texas to match names and fingerprints and complete identifications.Mexico’s foreign affairs secretary identified two people Tuesday who were hospitalized in San Antonio. But it turned out that one of the identification cards he shared on Twitter had been stolen last year in the southern state of Chiapas.
"My relatives were contacting me worried, asking where I was," she said. "I told them I was fine, that I was in my house and I clarified it on my" Facebook page. Another cousin, Alejandro López, told Mexico's Milenio television that their family worked in farming and construction and that they migrated because "we don’t have anything but weaving hats, palms and handicrafts."
"All of the young people start to think about going as soon as they turn 18," said migrant activist Carmelo Castañeda, who works with the nonprofit Casa del Migrante. "If there aren’t more visas, our people are going to keep dying."
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