Posted on 06/29/2022 3:37:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye in what has become a rite of passage for generations of migrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region in Oaxaca state.
After the farewells, Javier Flores López and Jose Luis Vásquez Guzmán began their trek north to the U.S-Mexico border and toward their final destination in Ohio, where construction jobs and other work awaited.
Flores López is now missing, his family said, while Vásquez Guzmán is hospitalized in San Antonio after surviving stifling heat in a truck-trailer near the Texas city that killed at least 53 people in the deadliest smuggling episode ever in the U.S.
It was not the first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border for Flores López, now in his mid-30s, who left Cerro Verde years ago and went to Ohio, where his father and a brother live.
He was back home to see his wife and three small children briefly, said a cousin, Francisco López Hernández. Vásquez Guzmán, 32, decided to go with his cousin for his first trip across the border and hoped to reach his oldest brother who is in Ohio as well.
While everyone knew the risks, countless people from Cerro Verde had made it safely across the U.S.-Mexico border with the help of smugglers, so it came as a shock, López Hernández said, to learn Vásquez Guzmán was among 67 people packed into the truck found abandoned Monday near auto salvage yards. The family believes Flores López was, too, but they are still awaiting confirmation.
López Hernández said most people rely on those who have made it to the U.S. to send them money for the journey, which usually costs around $9,000.
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Listen up gang. This is the part you have to listen to the violin!
Are we supposed to pity the illegal invaders? This isn’t their nation.
Moral of the story, Don’t invade our country!
What a sappy bunch of crap. These guys took the risks to cross illegally. They lost the bet.
It appears that all of these people were in the trailer when it went through US Customs at the border.
If so, why aren’t CBP opening the doors of the trailers to inspect the cargo?????????????
Find his relatives and deport them. And their anchor babies.
Oh well.
5.56mm
This is the fault of the left. 100%.
Let them do penance. After decades of this I have become desensitized. The CHEAPEST thing in the world for leftists is human life.
“Mexican migrant in Texas tragedy hoped to reach kin in Ohio”
That makes their illegal journey morally O.K.?? No, it does not.
Seize their bank accounts and property first.
Why didn’t he take a bus? It’s legal to travel here and stay for a few months.
Sure, just as soon as he acquires immigration papers, and pays for the emergency services rendered to his party.
but got baked alive instead
This is another reason to stop remittances. People who hire illegals pay these cartels.
“Hearts and Flowers,” is my first thought on reading the choice of approach to this horrific, totally avoidable mass murder (yes “murder). This is without a doubt a horrendous tragedy, incited, aided, abetted by the demon Democrats and their foe, faux president.
And they bet $10,000 each. Remember, although the Cartel and its US associates performed the crime, the US Chamber of Commerce, US Govt, Democratic Party and Big Business encouraged it.
And they were divinity students going to finish their schooling. They were just getting their lives straightened out. No more raping and robbing and violence. They were leaving all that behind. We had such high hopes they would be able to establish themselves and then all of us, relatives, could get permanent visas and welfare benefits for all 250 of us.
We do not know why they were carrying 20 lbs. of fentanyl! It must have been planted on they by white anti-immigrants. But, now we can sue the U.S. for $100,00,000 for our tragic loss and loss of future income.
{SARC} Well, kind of :)
““Mexican migrant in Texas tragedy hoped to reach kin in Ohio”
That makes their illegal journey morally O.K.??”
Don’t you understand? Ohio is the Buckeye State. /sarc
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