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07-24-2017, 08:35 PM #1
Mexican laborer: we were told Texas ride that killed 10 would be air-conditioned
Mexican laborer: we were told Texas ride that killed 10 would be air-conditioned
Adan Lalravega, who fainted during the sweltering ride in a tractor-trailer, describes hearing children begging for water: ‘People were despairing
Adan Lalravega said he was told the $5,500 he was being charged to be smuggled into the United States would include an air-conditioned truck ride.
Instead, the 27-year-old Mexican laborer climbed with his friends into a pitch-black, metal tractor-trailer compartment that lacked ventilation – a deadly oven that would claim 10 lives.
“After an hour I heard crying – people crying and asking for water. I, too, was sweating and people were despairing,” Lalravega told the Associated Press in an exclusive interview Monday from his bed in a San Antonio hospital. “That’s when I lost consciousness.”
By the time he regained it Sunday, he was in the hospital.
He told the AP that it all started when he climbed aboard the tractor-trailer in the border city of Laredo, Texas, with six friends from the state of Aguascalientes after the group waited nearly two weeks in a safe house.
“The guy we were with in the house told us they’d be putting us in a refrigerator,” he said, “a refrigerator with air. But that didn’t happen.”
The trailer was already full of people when the door opened up on a Laredo street. Lalravega said it was so dark he couldn’t see how many there were. A few were children, he said, whose voices he heard begging for water.
He said the smugglers didn’t offer passengers water, and he and his friends hadn’t brought any with them. The ride to San Antonio would only be 150 miles (240km).
Lalravega said he never saw the driver of the tractor-trailer. He said that when people are being smuggled, they are told not to look at the faces of their handlers – and it’s a good idea to obey.
The packed tractor-trailer was found early Sunday outside a Walmart store. As many as eight passengers were dead, and two more would soon die. The driver has been charged in the deaths.
When Lalravega woke up, he was in a hospital tossing and turning. He said he tried to leave “but I lost my balance and fell to the floor”.
“I still needed to drink a lot of water,” he said, recounting his story while eating lunch in his hospital bed, cardiac monitors still affixed to his chest.
Lalravega said all his friends survived as far as he knew, though some were hospitalized. Some have cousins and siblings in San Antonio.
Another passenger, described in the criminal complaint only by his initials, told officials that he also was from Aguascalientes. He said the immigrants were given different colored tape “to identify to the waiting smugglers which group they would be picking up”.
When the truck reached its destination, the rear doors were opened and people started swarming out. Six black SUVs were waiting and were filled within a matter of minutes before driving off. The man said he did not see who opened the trailer doors nor did he see the truck driver, according to the complaint.
Lalravega said he didn’t know his legal status. Mexican consular officials say they are providing legal representation for the survivors and that Lalravega had been visited by one.
Lalravega was hoping for a construction job. This was his second attempt to enter the United States. He said he was deported from the US three years ago but decided to take another chance because the economy is depressed where he lives with his wife, four-year-old daughter and three-year-old son.
“A person makes decisions without thinking through the consequences,” he said, “but, well, thanks to God, here we are.”
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07-25-2017, 02:04 AM #2
You stupid crooks. You knew it wasn't air-conditioned the minute they opened the doors and you crawled in it.
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07-25-2017, 02:17 AM #3
These poor people, all they want is to have a better life and support there families.
Well, looks like they are making good money in Mexico if they can afford to give $5500.00 in cash to a smuggler.
I do not know any American citizen that can whip up $5500 in cash for a truck ride.
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07-25-2017, 09:18 AM #4
ICE needs to deport ALL survivors ASAP
No free pass to stay...get them out
Blame THEIR President for these deaths
They have land, they have resources...they should have sanctuary and a good life on their soilILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM
DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL
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07-25-2017, 07:32 PM #5
They want to come here and steal our jobs and resources and they expect a comfortable air-conditioned ride in the process. Unbelievable. What part of "WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE" don't they understand?
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07-25-2017, 07:40 PM #6A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
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07-25-2017, 09:10 PM #7
Most Walmarts have security cameras all over the parking lots so it shouldn't be impossible to get the info on the 6 black SUVs that picked some of them up when they arrived..
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07-25-2017, 10:48 PM #8
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