The Mexican authorities announced the discovery of an abandoned trailer on a highway in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, with at least 94 immigrants inside.
According to the AP agency, the director of Attention to Migrants of the government of the state of Veracruz, Carlos Enrique Escalante, the heavy vehicle was found on Wednesday night with dozens of people, mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Likewise, it reported that immigrants desperate due to the suffocating heat and lack of oxygen broke the box of the trailer while the rest of the occupants made noise to call the attention of bystanders.
It was thanks to those two desperate actions that the inhabitants of the area realized that there were people trapped in the trailer, they helped them get out of the unit and prevented dozens of people from suffocating to death.
“Unfortunately there were some (immigra before) that they had to be thrown from the top of the trailer and they suffered a sprain,” Escalante said.
Escalante indicated that they were traveling in the trailer 94 people, but some escaped as soon as the doors of the vehicle were opened, so only 94 immigrants remained under the protection of the agents of the National Institute of Migration, INM, of Veracruz while deportation procedures are concluded, but he clarified that until now there is no official record of the occupants of the unit.
The official also revealed that people of all ages were traveling, including entire families, and that fortunately there is no life to mourn.
Along with this finding, the tragic accident that took place last 27 June when some Hispanic workers alerted the authorities of San Antonio, Texas, about an abandoned trailer on the highway with more than 40 bodies without life, a figure that quickly grew to 53, making the event one of the most tragic in the history of the United States.
Despite the precedents, hundreds of Hispanic families leave their countries in search of new life opportunities, even if their integrity is at stake.