Antonio Hurtado does not cut the typical profile of a maritime smuggler. Yet he is accused of smashing a trawler onto the rocks off Point Loma, killing three of the 32 migrants aboard.
AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
1 Jun 2021
President Joe Biden should remove the Title 42 anti-coronavirus border barrier because it raises the difficulty and risks for migrants trying to reach U.S. jobs, say pro-migration groups.
“Migrants are attempting multiple crossings, seeking out more remote and perilous sections of the border … [so increasing] migrants’ chances of needing to be rescued or of dying,” claimed a May 26 report by The Marshall Project. The report is titled “Strict Border Enforcement Policies Put Migrants in Harm’s Way. Title 42 Is No Exception.”
On May 31, the
Los Angeles Timespresented a soft-focus version of the claim with an extensive article about the burial of one Mexican migrant who drowned on the California coast:
David Hernandez and Kristina Davis
San Diego Union-Tribune
Maria Eugenia Chavez Segovia boarded the 40-foot trawler-like boat with few items: identification, prayer cards, rosary beads and some Mexican pesos.
The 41-year-old single mother from a small town in central Mexico hoped to work in agriculture in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Her aspiration rested on the boat, which she and 31 other migrants with their own ambitions crowded aboard.
In the U.S., her sister and two brothers who live in Stockton and Salinas awaited her arrival, according to Luis Magaña, an advocate of agricultural workers in San Joaquin County and the Valley at large.