X-rays reveal 513 US-bound migrants crammed in trucks

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — Police in Mexico's southern Chiapas state found 513 migrants on Tuesday inside two trailer trucks bound for the United States, and said they had been transported in dangerously crowded conditions.

Chiapas state police discovered the migrants while using X-ray equipment on the trucks at a checkpoint in the outskirts of city of Tuxtla Gutierrez.

Some of the immigrants were suffering from dehydration after traveling for hours clinging to cargo ropes strung inside the containers to keep them upright as the trucks bounced along from the Guatemalan border, and allow more migrants to be more crammed in on the floor.

The trucks had air holes punched in the tops of the containers, but migrants interviewed at the state prosecutors' office said they lacked air and water. The trucks were bound for the central city of Puebla, where the migrants said they had been told they would be loaded aboard a second set of vehicles for the trip to the U.S. border.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43073023/ns/world_news-americas/

How wonderful for them!

Tesha

...the smuggling of many other items. I'm reasonably
confident that one of the things they'd really want to
detect are those heavy elements that would be useful
in nuclear weapons.

Tesha

In the back of trucks.

No one could have anticipated that!

Tesha

in Arizona and now in other states. How dare they just waltz in to our country and take our jobs. Fuck em!

:sarcasm:

found.

they would take such dangerous measures to leave

Those countries are fucked up because they cater to the Wealthy Elite who run the government that makes living conditions for the average citizen so miserable they would go to such drastic measures.

Where is the your justifiable anger and outrage now ....

Think real hard about this: do we suffer from a shortage of labor in this country right now to such an existent that we need to import more workers?

Are we literally suffering from 0% unemployment and businesses cannot find workers to fill openings, hampering our growth? If so then sure, bring them in. If not, maybe we can live without them.

Does the description of the trucks remind you of this?

Indeed, they probably paid exorbitantly in their own terms for the ride.

Kind of says something about our modern world, don't it?

:(

I was thinking the exact same thing.