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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interesting thread. We need to close the border down because this is out of control, but i have three observations:
1) at least these guys were coming here to work. And we’ve all seen these guys on work crews, and they work their asses off.
2) you think inflation is bad now? How bad do you think it would be if these guys weren’t working for cheap and depressing wages?
3) lets say you need a new roof on your house. $12,000 estimate from one company, $16,000 from another. Same quality level. Do you actively pay the more expensive company if you know the cheaper one is using illegal labor? Do you check? or just go with the cheaper estimate?
Build the wall.
Works for me!
Preaching to the choir. I live three miles from the border. I watch the white busses go out everyday to San Diego.
Cry me a freakin’ river.
The media sucks.
Good points.
Corrupt inspectors???
For the life of God people!! The people to blame for this tradegy are the leftists and JULIE WATSON and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ!! Please Julie and Fabiola, as you are preparing to fall asleep at night just for a few minutes consider the possibility that your college professors were wrong.
We do not pity the deaths of the enemy in warfare. These deaths are just the deaths of enemy invaders, not poor migrants looking for a better life.
Poor analysis. What you do is artificially limit the financial costs to a single event. What about all the “free” health care and social hand outs given out to these invaders? And there are many other costs as well.
You and I are and our children will pay for these costs. It is also one of many reasons why this country is $30+ trillion in debt.
Find and charge illegal relations in Ohio.
Illegals are lazy, dirty, third worlders who will sh!t in your sump pump and steal your tools. They do horrible work. That cheap roof will blow off in a year.
I don’t know where you got the idea they are good workers.
More dem propaganda.
Well. Maybe this will serve as a lesson to other would be invaders to use the front door legally or nor at all.
TSJ. Normally it is TSE (Elliott) but now it is for Jose.
Arrest ever last person named in this article. Prosecute and deport them.
All of them.
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