On June 27, local time, the "New York Times", Fox News and many other US media reported at the same time that the Texas police discovered a very unusual car in the San Antonio area of the state. Suspicious abandoned truck. When the police opened the door of the truck, they found that the truck was full of people. After counting by the police, there were 62 people in the cabin, 46 of whom were already dead, and the remaining 16 were dying and have been sent to the hospital for treatment. Their lives are not yet out of danger.
Texas police believe that the 62 people in the truck are illegal immigrants. Texas has been suffering from extreme heat recently, with the highest temperature in San Antonio reaching 40 degrees Celsius. More than sixty illegal immigrants were stranded in a crowded, small, hot and stuffy truck cabin for a long time, which ultimately led to the tragedy of dozens of deaths. Currently the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent an investigation team to the scene, and more details need to be further disclosed. Many U.S. officials said that although safety accidents often occur during the smuggling process of illegal immigrants, it is still extremely rare for 46 people to die at one time.
Photos taken in Acuña City, Coahuila State, Mexico, show illegal immigrants buying supplies traveling back and forth on the Rio Grande River on the US-Mexico border.
Due to the huge differences in economic development levels, a large number of people from Latin American countries have long been trying to immigrate to the United States in various ways, especially in the minds of people from Honduras , Haiti and other Central American poor countries, as long as If you can enter the United States smoothly, even if you can only work in the lowest-end and most difficult industries, your quality of life will be much better than in your home country. Many American human traffickers take advantage of this mentality of Latin American people and try their best to lure them to the United States and let them do extremely heavy work, but only give them little or no compensation. Because these Latin American illegal immigrants do not have legal status, they dare not file a lawsuit with the judicial authorities, because once they report their employers to the judicial authorities, even if the employer is punished, they themselves will be deported back to their country. Therefore, most Latin American illegal immigrants can only be exploited by their employers and have no human rights at all.
Along the Rio Grande River in the border city of Del Rio, Texas, United States, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Troopers try to control illegal immigrants as they try to cross the Rio Grande River from Acuna City into Texas .
Talking about this case, Texas is adjacent to Mexico , and there is a large area of inaccessible desert along the border. Therefore, most of the transportation lines for illegal immigrants entering the United States have been concentrated in Texas. Texas, and the U.S. police and Customs and Border Administration also regard Texas as a frontline battlefield in the fight against illegal immigration. After Trump came to power, the United States began to severely investigate and crack down on illegal immigrants. Biden Although he promised to improve the treatment of illegal immigrants during the election, he has yet to push forward relevant policies nearly halfway through his term. In order to contend with the increasingly strict pursuit and interception, illegal immigrants and human traffickers have also begun to take deviant measures and use a large number of extreme and unsafe methods to transport illegal immigrants in order to evade searches by the US police. At the same time, in the eyes of human traffickers, illegal immigrants are "goods" without human rights. In order to improve transportation efficiency and concealment, illegal immigrants are often stuffed into severely overloaded vehicles regardless of their health and safety. This is how this tragedy occurred.
In the border city of Del Rio, Texas, the United States, illegal immigrants, most of them from Haiti, gathered in the local area waiting for buses and flights.
So why are people from these Latin American countries willing to risk their lives to sneak into the United States? The direct reason seems to be that their own country is so poor, chaotic and backward that they are willing to risk their lives to try their luck in foreign lands. However, these Latin American countries have not always been poor and backward. The United States is the culprit that has caused Latin American countries to fall into a mess.For a long time, the United States has been pursuing the "Monroe Doctrine", treating Latin American countries as its own back garden, and ruthlessly plundered and exploited Latin American countries.
U.S. border police intercept illegally entering Central American immigrants
For example, the United Fruit Company of the United States forced the Honduran government to lease most of the land in the country to itself and develop it into banana plantations. In order to maximize profits, United Fruit Company requires the Honduran government to refuse to provide compulsory education to the people. Only in this way can the vast majority of Honduran people enter the United Fruit banana plantations to work. This has made the banana planting industry the economic pillar of Honduras, so much so that the country has been nicknamed the " Banana Republic ". It has also prevented Honduras's economy from developing healthily for a long time, and the people can only pin their only hope on smuggling to the United States. On the body.
Children being interrogated at the US-Mexico border in Texas
Another example is another Latin American country Guatemala . This country originally had fertile soil, rich minerals and convenient transportation. However, these resources are all occupied by American companies, and the Guatemalan people can hardly benefit from them. In 1950, Guatemalan President Arbenz tried to implement nationalization reforms and wanted to nationalize the resources occupied by American companies. As a result, before the reform was successful, the CIA launched a coup in 1954, overthrowing the Arbenz government. Since then, Guatemala has completely become an economic colony of the United States. And because the country is located at the crossroads between North and South America, South American drug traffickers must pass through Guatemala if they want to send drugs by land to the United States, the world's largest drug consumer. As a result, Guatemala has become one of the countries in the world with the most active gang forces and the worst public security levels.
Illegal immigrant children lie on sleeping mats in plastic tents at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Processing Center in Donna, Texas.
It can be seen that the current situation of chaos and poverty in Latin American countries is entirely caused by the United States. Latin American people cannot bear the cruel current situation and can only risk their lives to sneak into the United States, but they still cannot avoid the fate of dying in a tragic way. We can say that as long as the hegemony of the United States is not overturned, such tragedies will continue to happen again.
