Migrant truck deaths in Texas put Biden border crisis on world’s radar – By Anna Giaritelli (Washington Examiner) / June 28, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — Mexican and Guatemalan politicians echoed Republican lawmakers in the United States who blamed the Biden administration’s failure to address the migration crisis at the southern border for the mass casualty event involving migrants this week.
The bodies of dozens of migrants were found in the back of an 18-wheeler truck that had been parked on the side of a dirt road just miles from downtown San Antonio Monday evening. As of Tuesday afternoon, 51 people have been declared deceased, rising overnight from 46 after several people who had been taken to the hospital succumbed to their injuries. All suffered from heat-related complications, being confined to the back of a suffocating container lacking air conditioning when the temperature outside hit triple digits Monday.
Investigators within the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations have called the event a human smuggling incident, but questions remain as to whether the migrants illegally crossed the southern border from Mexico and then were transported further into the country or if they were smuggled through the ports of entry but not caught.
As investigators piece together what happened, lawmakers and politicians on both sides of the aisle are pointing fingers, largely at the Biden administration. And so are certain foreign leaders.
