Victims have been found with no identification documents at all and in one case a stolen ID. Remote villages lack phone service to reach family members and determine the whereabouts of missing migrants. More than a day after the discovery of a stifling trailer in San Antonio, Texas, where 53 migrants died after being abandoned in the sweltering heat, few identities of the victims have been made public, illustrating the challenges authorities face in tracing people who cross borders clandestinely.
In small towns in eastern and western Mexico, hundreds of mourners gathered in the predawn hours on Thursday to hold the first funerals for migrants who died last month while being smuggled in a suffocating trailer in San Antonio, Texas.
Querétaro, Mexico, Jul 14 (EFE).- The first funerals for Mexican migrants repatriated after the Texas truck trailer tragedy were held Thursday in states including Querétaro and Oaxaca. The government on Wednesday announced the repatriation of 16 Mexicans out of 53 migrants who died after they were abandoned inside a trailer in San Antonio last month. …
By Tamara Corro and Jose Cortes San Marcos Atexquilapan, Mexico (Reuters) - In small towns in eastern and western Mexico, hundreds of mourners gathere.
San Marcos Atexquilapan, Mexico (Reuters) - In small towns in eastern and western Mexico, hundreds of mourners gathered in the predawn hours on Thursday to hold the first funerals for migrants who died last month while being smuggled in a suffocating trailer in San Antonio, Texas.