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June 29, 2022

Death Toll in Texas Rises to 51 After Migrants Found Trapped in Tractor-Trailer
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In Texas, the number of people who died after being confined inside a
sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio has risen to 51. All of the
victims are believed to have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border seeking
refuge. Forty-six people were found dead in the truck on Monday, while
five more died after being taken to local hospitals. On Tuesday, Mexican
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador addressed the mass deaths.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador: "I want to express my deepest
condolences to the families of the Mexican, Guatemalan and Honduran
migrants who died yesterday, asphyxiated in a trailer. It is a
tremendous disgrace. … These unfortunate events have to do with the
situation of poverty and desperation of our Central American and Mexican
brothers and sisters. It happens because there is also human trafficking
and lack of controls at the border between Mexico and the United States
and in the United States."



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