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.
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Searching for hope, 32 migrants were pushed to extremes in an attempt to enter the US [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-CALIF-CAPSIZED-BOAT-MIGRANTS:SD]
SAN DIEGO Maria Eugenia Chavez Segovia boarded the 40-foot boat with few items: identification, prayer cards, rosary beads and some Mexican pesos.
The 41-year-old 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.
But none of them made it to their intended destinations. The boat crashed into a reef off Point Loma and splintered.
A deadly wreck of a boat off Point Loma shows how decades of heightened border enforcement and recent pandemic policies have driven migrants to riskier crossings
SAN DIEGO
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 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.
But none of them made it to their intended destinations. The boat crashed into a reef off Point Loma on May 2 and splintered.
Chavez Segovia and two others drowned. Another person remains hospitalized, his lungs recovering from resuscitation. The rest are in federal detention as material witnesses to their own attempted smuggling in the unfolding prosecution against the suspected boat captain.