Mexico: 500 migrants found in trucks in Chiapas

[fishnet_hamster]

Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13434589
More than 500 illegal migrants have been discovered crammed into the trailers of two trucks heading from Mexico towards the US.The 513 migrants, from Latin America and Asia, were were found travelling

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[poetic_pixie_13]

I need a fucking drink.

[romp]

I believe they're all alive? I can't forget when rail cars were found with people dead inside quite a few years ago--apparently, the people who went in were scarred by what they saw.

I don't have a solution. :(

[echoandsway]

I recall one particular incident that happened in the early 90s, I think? A boxcar was found with *one* man alive inside. What he recounted was beyond belief.

Ah, found it; it was in 1987, in Sierra Blanca, Texas Warning: graphic description. 18 people died from the heat and lack of ventilation in a boxcar that was locked and left on a railroad siding. I still recall what he said, which was to the effect of he prayed to God to save him, but he was certain the other men with him had, too.

Heaven knows there have been many of these tragedies since then.

[romp]

thank you (I guess)--that was the situation I was thinking of

[echoandsway]

It made the news for several days, nationally. IIRC, people really were horrified. As they should have been. The image of this man trapped in a 130-degree container with 18 people who'd already succumbed, trying to get any air he could out of that little hole...

There have been other incidents since, and I don't think they've gotten as much coverage as that one did. Are people inured to it as SOP for migrants, or is it just...lost in the shuffle?

[muse_misery]

I just :( at this, @ all sides involved in the whole entire spectrum of fail. Those poor people. Ugh. UGH UGH UGH.

I hope the rapture or apocolypse or whatever really does come AND EVERYONE IS JUDGED AND MASSIVE FAIL OCCURS. I'm so over this shit.

[muse_misery]

I am glad that they are all alive.

[pragmatic_chimp]

So glad that they were rescued.

So, now that they have been rescued, they're going to be allowed to travel on the country of their choosing (presumably America) where they will be allowed to find work and live the lives that they wish to live, right? Because there's no way that poor people like this, after going through so much, could just be shipped back to where they started, with less than the nothing they had to begin with. No way that's fair, so it isn't going to happen, right? Right?

[romp]

I struggle with that too. The undocumented workers I've been acquainted with have been hardworking people who the US would be lucky to have.

[fishnet_hamster]

So, now that they have been rescued, they're going to be allowed to travel on the country of their choosing (presumably America) where they will be allowed to find work and live the lives that they wish to live, right?

Wrong, unfortunately.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43088686/ns/world_news-americas

It is too early in the morning for me to be able to deal with this story. I want to quit reality for a while.

[maladaptive]

That's why I always kind of =/ when border patrol says "rescue." People risk everything... and get sent back.

[pragmatic_chimp]

PS - It's bullshit that capital can move freely between most boarders, but labor is forbidden to do the same. If the lives and rights of these workers had the same value to our society as some CEO from Tokyo or New York things like this would never happen.