The ignorance illustrates the challenges authorities face in tracing individuals who cross borders clandestinely.
The variety of lifeless rose to 53 on Wednesday after two extra migrants died, based on the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Workplace. Forty of the victims have been male and 13 have been feminine, it stated.
Greater than a day after the invention of a lorry trailer in Texas the place dozens of migrants who died have been deserted within the sweltering warmth, few identities of the victims have been made public.
Officers had potential identifications on 37 of the victims as of Wednesday morning, pending verification with authorities in different international locations.
“It’s a tedious, tedious, unhappy, troublesome course of,” Bexar County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores, who represents the district the place the truck was deserted, stated.
The our bodies have been found on Monday afternoon on the outskirts of San Antonio in what’s believed to be the nation’s deadliest smuggling episode on the US/Mexico border.
Greater than a dozen folks have been taken to hospitals, together with 4 kids. Three folks have been arrested.
The truck, which was registered in Alamo, Texas, however had faux plates and logos, was carrying 67 migrants, Francisco Garduno, chief of Mexico’s Nationwide Immigration Institute, stated on Wednesday.
The driving force was apprehended after making an attempt to faux he was one of many migrants, Mr Garduno stated. Two different Mexican males had additionally been detained, he stated.
Among the many lifeless have been 27 folks from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, he stated. One of many victims had no identification, Mr Garduno added.
The incident occurred at a time when big numbers of migrants have been coming to the US, a lot of them taking perilous dangers to cross swift-running rivers and canals and scorching desert landscapes. Migrants have been stopped practically 240,000 occasions in Could, up by one-third from a 12 months in the past.
With little details about the victims, determined households of migrants from Mexico and Central America sought phrase of their family members.
A number of survivors have been in crucial situation with accidents equivalent to mind harm and inner bleeding, based on Ruben Minutti, the Mexico consul normal in San Antonio.
Guatemala’s international ministry stated late on Tuesday that it had confirmed two hospitalised Guatemalans and was working to determine three potential Guatemalans among the many lifeless.
Honduras’s international relations ministry stated it was working to verify the identities of 4 individuals who died within the truck and carried Honduran papers.
