At least 46 have been found dead inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, in what appears to be a human smuggling attempt along the United States-Mexico border.
San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said 16 other people found in the trailer on Monday were transported to the hospital for heat stroke and exhaustion.
They included four minors.
“The patients we saw were hot to the touch. They were suffering from heat stroke, heat exhaustion. There were no signs of water in the vehicle,” he said.
“It was a refrigerated tractor-trailer, but there was no visible air conditioning unit on that rig.”
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Soo sad RIP
But,,,,no one can escape from the Devine Justice,,,,
Whatever sin does a man have committed is also he will be tormented,,,,
Yes. The Russians better hope that there is no God.
@thinkerly1 but Russia was chosen by Heaven to bring Chastisement to this sinful humanity,,,,,
This is because DONALD TRUMP did not become a second term PRESIDENT. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
This is sad, I’m happy some survived and should be given usa status as it is out of order what the smugglers did to them.
no way
This is what should be expected when a bunch of rich, arrogant white people take the view that people of color aren’t good enough to live with them….
Just a guess they are people from South of the Border escaping oppression designed by people from North of the Border…
I know racist, white Americans are celebrating this.
Thx Biden administration
Guaranteed it’s a trump supporter idiot who did this. As long as trump keeps pumping out hate. The deaths will continue. ARREST TRUMP NOW.
US is a mess
Thus is an on going slave traders supplying slave labor to US agriculture and industries and are forced to live in barricaded prison style ‘housing’ since historical times
US has become too unsafe unlike europe because of too diverse migrants
In the USA, police does not care about preventing or solving crimes like that.
Wrong. Our police are mostly good people, and they do their best.
Lame
this is why workplace and immigration reform needs to happen
If this was happened in some other countries this American talked about human rights and toppled the government in the name human rights
These poor people bypassed Mexico and ignored Panama, Costa Rica and Belize. Why?
YEP. America has also paid for and built countless border walls for other countries but call it a human rights crime when Trump tried it here.
That’s what republicans want.
People who “earn a living” and get rich by doing things like this…..earn nothing, and are worth nothing.
Humanity would be better off if they all died suddenly.
I live in San Antonio is a sad times. We see this everyday this is just became international story. This happened last year in San Antonio no one died.
I hope the authority catch the perpetrators and charge them with first degree mass murder. This is brutal death for the victims.
They are now targeting truck drivers….
First, truck drivers were seen protesting in canada, US, and australia, germany and in parts of europe…
This calls a target to those groups… Eye can sea them
Let’s go Brandon!
@Richard Barnes suuuuure. Bidens not to blame, is he? Not ol bumbling Joe.
@Funnin Games lol what did you say though? Who’s Brandon snowflake? Must be your homosexual partner or something. Do you though.
@cx23 project much?
@cx23 but we saved tax money
this will happen again and again until our border is secure to the point of making it impossible to cross illegally. security prevents tragedy.
Omg 😳
Who cares , they were illegal
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Human smuggling??
They didn’t pay up ..need to close the southern border for a whole year
And those are the ones found.
Hows Bidens way working for you guys ? From South Africa
We are doomed, that is how it is working out.
These Mexican human traffickers are conspiring with these Racist White Republicans to Provide for them Cheap Disposable labor for their businesses. These Racist White People want to Live like RICH Europeans for FREE in America(s) they expect these poor Latin Americas people to provide for them BIG Luxury houses and RICH European lifestyle for FREE. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Most people here forget that USA is made of migrants!
Nothing new. This is Abbots planning. He was probably shipping them to DC
This is all on Joe Biden. He has been trucking up illegal immigrants through Texas so that his party can remain in power since Texas has always been a Republican state. Have you noticed all the illegal immigrants are coming up through Texas only?? Why not California?? Because California is already a Democratic state. Biden/Obama and that whole party are sick people and destroying the world
Your borders killed them, your all guilty of murder.
surprised they didnt blame russia for it being hot or something
Shame for country like US
It’s all about the money with these so called coyotes, truly sad and RIP to all the victims…
Border czar Harris body counts rising but socialist democrats don’t care welcome to socialist democrat Death Valley 🏜 more dead kids. Not shot but slow death 💀 Pelosi won’t be able to elbow these kids
So can we finally stop the cartels or is their evil going to continue in perpetuity?
That lady is so afraid of offending Liberal sensibilities that she can’t call this a human trafficking situation, like it so obviously is with 62 people packed into a cargo trailer in Texas. I mean, it definitely wasn’t just a family vacation gone wrong!
What temperature’s is she talking about. It’s in the low 100 degrees here in SA.
I think she meant Celsius not Farengeiht because she’s on an international tv station, the rest of the world uses the metric system of measurement
The refrifer unit was not working! THIS NEEDS TO BE DECLARED GENOCIDE!
Stay in your country, eat what u have, better than die in truck
If india in the truck they can survive because they are air pollution lover 🇮🇳😂🤣
this already happen before.. so why they dont do something about this.
Who is they?
Happened in the UK too. If you’re a people smuggler, drill holes in the floor cos they’ll run out of air in there otherwise.
can you say human trafficing
Please put rules at the border. Don’t open up the boder.
Upper 20s low 30s. No not possible. They would have been freezing. This is in US right.
LOL yeah we use F not C folks.
Blame it all on Democrates and the open border policy. That want to destroy the US by any means possible.
November is coming
Thank Joes Biden!!
USA 🇺🇸 military kidnapping meny afghan people 🧐😏
Illegal trafficking where the authorities know who and how so this crime must be investigated by FBI.
Trafficking is selling people, smuggling is sneaking people across a border.
if it’s not a human trafficking case, then what is it?
only moly
if it’s a reefer (refrigerated) truck, without an
A/C unit… it’s still insulated.
those things get much hotter than a regular box truck.
There are no words.
they died baked.
Crazy they do not talk about this on the news in America.
So did was it a Refrigerated Trailer with the Refrigeration not hooked up to the Tractor, or an Unrefrigerated Trailer?
😭😭😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏
This is sad, but if they would have followed the laws and came across the border legally, they would still be alive.
LOL
Secure the border lock up the coyotes go after the cartels that simple
U.S. border policy dysfunction. American politicians are near worthless. Re: Public Library info. The people at the southern border are usually Amerindians whose ancestry can be traced to ‘pre Columbus’. In south American countries, the Spanish have ruled with an iron hand for the last 500 years. Their ancestry can be traced to the Spanish invasion in the 1500s. The many dictators that the U.S. has supported/installed in the countries below the border are also of Spanish ancestry. P.S This historical info is completely absent in history books in the American school system.
This is why it’s so terribly dangerous to enter a country illegally. It’s a matter of life and death and you’re gambling. Don’t do it.
Hahahahaha nice … Come here legally.
Joe Biden ran on the platform he wanted open boarders when he was nominated at the DNC. During the debates, he said he wanted people to come here and have open borders. A total of 81,268,924 Americans, be they dead or alive, legal or illegal voted for this shitshow, so there is no one to blame but yourself.
This administration is directly responsible for these deaths. They have put a no border sign out, encouraging a massive influx of illegals into this country. I am not a cold person. At the same time neither am I insane and TOTALLIY IRRESPONSIBLE. This is intentional and no sane person will believe the gov’t when they LIE and say, “the border is closed”.
Yeah…and…
Uvalde now this way to go texas
This is very heartbreaking so so 😥 😥 prayers for all loss In Jesus Name Amen.
What ..I ‘ve this seen in Korean movie.
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Lady it’s not upper 20’s low 30’s it’s freaking upper 40’s low 50’s.
you people did so much magic with language that may have lost ability to speak even when things are obvious. talking as if you are fundraising for smugglers to install ac. problem is that they were locked and abandoned. dont think they would have left ac working when abandoning people.
God help us.!?!?!.
*2 muslim guys beheading non muslim innocent hindu but Al-Jazeera islamic Qatar king media no news about this issu ?*
Good job Kamala.
Second time in SA cartels are in the city I can confirm
Why use Celsius? In the US? Where 90% of the population is familiar with Farenheit
Only usa , rest of the world use celsius
Why does this have to happen on this planet? Humans have to evolve to take care of one another…..soon
Russia had to send missiles to kill their neighbors civilian population.
The US just makes laws to kill Mexicans.
The trafficker is laughing all the way to his/her nonexistent bank.
Remember when those N@zis got arrested in Idaho? I wish there truck had overheated instead
The worst/saddest part about this is that those people actually made it to the united states right before they died.
i thank god everyday im still alive and breath not taking life for granted!Amen and prayers to the family of this horrific tragedy!
What about the human rights of refugees?
Let’s pray.
Since there is over a 1000 of these trucks filled will illegals being smuggled into America every single day of every single week of every single month of every single year of every single decade since President Reagan gave 3 million illegals amnesty back in the 80s…..the odds say you have a better chance of dying from lightning then from heatstroke while being human trafficked.
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And they say slavery is dead.
Their body or organs might be sold to the hospital or medical research, or biolabs for experiments or they could sell their organs…. There are black markets going on and you dont even know it. Plus truckers recently protesting or rallying for freedom convoy accross the globe. I am not shock if they are being tragetted this group. Sigh 😢
Funny how… JESUS said… y’all are gonna suffer!!!
Jesus, starts …. With y’all NON BELIEVERS!
Funny HOW all these quakes are ON YOU!!!
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Media minimizes tragedy , 53 is Dozens !
Thanks Joe!
Good, wouldn’t have happened if they came here legally. The sun keeping America American.
Truck load of criminals…
This is horrid. Where was the driver? You’d think he could stop several times (to allay suspicion) and get water, ostensively for himself and give it out. Even if it was human trafficking, what good is a truckload of dead? These transporters are heartless.
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