Thread: Guatemalan Migrants Die in Bus Crash

10 Guatemalan Migrants Die in Bus Crash
By Associated Press
15 minutes ago

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - A speeding truck loaded with migrants headed to the United States collided with another truck Wednesday in southern Mexico, killing at least 10 Guatemalans, authorities said.

Eighty Guatemalans were packed inside the truck at the time of the collision on a bridge in Raudales Malpaso, about 60 miles northeast of Tuxtla Gutierrez, said Martin Rabanales, a spokesman for the state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala.

The truck carrying the migrants was traveling 87 mph in a 50 mph zone and the truck driver was inexperienced, Rabanales said. He said 10 Guatemalans were killed and at least 16 were critically injured.

Thursday's was the latest deadly road accident in Mexico. A packed bus plunged into a 650-foot ravine in eastern Mexico on April 18, killing 58 people traveling at the end of the country's Easter week holiday.

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It's mind boggling how these illegals risk their lives to come here

Originally Posted by ConcernedCitizen

It's mind boggling how these illegals risk their lives to come here

Very sad to hear about such accidents. The lives of Mexican and South American illegals are as precious as ours. Many, if not most illegals, are just people in a difficult situation.

We have made it easy for them to risk life and limb to arrive. We have businesses inviting them, coaxing them to break our laws. Coyotes prey on their hopes for a better future. The churches here encourage them. Every message they hear is that life is easier here, that once they get here all kinds of wonderful doors will open and they come.

However---the impact of millions of "wonderful poor people" is a horrible strain on our country. It is an injustice to our own "wonderful poor people". We can only spread our services so thin. Our country cannot absorb the world's huddled masses. Or at least not to this extent.

I stand sympathetic to their personal situation, as in being poor, but antithetic to their invasion of the USA. They need to fix their own country so they don't risk death and injury to gate crash into this one.