Posted on 03/03/2021 2:13:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
Thirteen people killed in one of the deadliest crashes involving migrants sneaking into the U.S. had entered California through a hole cut into the border fence with Mexico in what was believed to be a larger smuggling operation...
Surveillance video showed a Ford Expedition and Chevrolet Suburban drive through the opening early Tuesday...
The Suburban carried 19 people, and it caught fire for unknown reasons on a nearby interstate after entering the U.S. All escaped the vehicle and were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents.
The Expedition crammed with 25 people continued on, and a tractor-trailer struck it a short time later. Ten of the 13 killed in that crash have been identified as Mexican citizens.
[The fence] was made of steel bollards that were built before former President Donald Trump blanketed much of the border with taller barriers that go deeper into the ground. Photos show a panel of eight steel poles was lifted out and left on the ground in the desert next to an old tire and other debris.
When police arrived Tuesday at the crash site... some passengers were trying to crawl out of the crumpled SUV. Others were wandering around the nearby fields. The big rig’s front end was pushed into the SUV’s left side and two empty trailers were jackknifed behind it.
The men and women in the SUV ranged in age from 15 to 53, and those who survived had injuries that were minor to severe, including fractures and head trauma, officials said. The driver was from Mexicali...just across the border, and was among those killed.
Seats in the SUV had been removed except for those for the driver and front passenger...
The crash happened in an area that became a major route for illegal border crossings in the late 1990s...
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Dead due to no WALL.
That monster, Trump, tried to put a stop to this. The fiend!/s
SUV? All by itself?
Eeeeeevilll SUVs.
Biden has blood on his hands.
I am much happier criminals kill or maim themselves, rather than innocents, when committing crimes.
We need more such occasions, because too many uninvolved people are hurt.
Yep. And he’s giving the drug cartels a thumbs up.
Dead due to no WALL.
But the good news is that the U.S. has potentially 30 new citizens!
/s
Alien SUV runs stop sign at high speed and gets T-Boned, Right There, by empty double bottom dump.
If they had stayed in Mexico, they’d be alive right now.
I think you mean the Democrat party has 30 new voters. /not sarc.
Guess “migrants” are the new “teens”
Autonomous SUVs will kill us all if we don’t stop them!
[SUV came through hole in border fence prior to Imperial County crash that killed 13]
Human trafficking, given a wink and a nod by the cheap labor open-borders Globalists.
“migrants sneaking into the U.S.”
Surprised they worded it that way. Lately the “media” has been referring to illegals “arriving” in the U.S. as if they got off a flight or a bus.
This will get a minimal amount of coverage in the mainstream media. If Donald Trump were still in the White House, there would be wall to wall coverage about how these poor people died as a result of “Trump’s oppressive immigration policy.”
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