In Texas, 51 migrants were found dead inside a steamy hot tractor-trailer that was left abandoned on a remote road in San Antonio.
While sixteen survivors were hospitalized, including four children, treated for heat stroke and exhaustion, Texas is undergoing a searing heat wave. Local authorities said a city worker heard a cry for help from inside the truck Monday afternoon and discovered a body on the ground outside the trailer’s partially opened gate.
The San Antonio’s Fire Chief, Charles Hood said, “The patients that we saw were hot to the touch. They were suffering from heat stroke, heat exhaustion. No signs of water in the vehicle. It was a refrigerated tractor-trailer, but there was no visible working AC unit on that rig.”
This is among the deadliest tragedies in recent decades of people attempting to cross into the U.S. and comes as the Biden administration persists in enforcing extremely harsh border policies blocking most migrants from safely entering through ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border. Thousands are forced to take on extremely dangerous routes and rely on smugglers and have lost their lives during this life-threatening entry into the USA.
It is always a humanitarian crisis as migrants seek refuge in the USA, but now, it has become a horrific humanitarian tragedy.
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