This by the way, isn't the only industrial scale operation that is being detected -- Fox News's Melugin also found a case where a huge stash of fentanyl from a border operation was found in California around the same time -- and a leftist D.A. actually let the smugglers of that cartel operation out on their own recognizance. The border is indeed open.
The wages of Biden's open border: 46 found dead in a San Antonio truck
So how's Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's open border going, where Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas has said he has "operational control"?
According to Fox News:
At least 46 undocumented migrants were found dead in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas and more than a dozen were hospitalized, authorities said.
Crews were at the 9600 block of Quintana Road where an 18-wheeler containing up to 100 migrants inside was found abandoned, Fox San Antonio reported. The discovery is part of what is believed to be a human smuggling operation.
"This is nothing short of a horrific human tragedy," San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said Monday night near the location where the tractor-trailer was found.
The temperature outside was reportedly 106 degrees Fahrenheit. The space had to have been constrained. There was no water. There was no air conditioner or cooling and it was a supposedly refrigerated truck. Some of the very few survivors were reportedly kids.
Some beast left the truck on a San Antonio street and didn't even unlock the back doors so that at least the migrants being smuggled could get out. The only reason the box of horror was discovered at all was because a passerby heard cries from the inside for help.
It doesn't matter if they were illegal border crossers at this point, they were human beings and nobody deserves to die a cruel suffocating death like that -- as some kind of misplaced or forgotten cargo, with some human smuggler stepping away to save himself from arrest perhaps. The size of the death count is comparable to that of a cartel massacre of migrants who didn't pay the crossing fees that happened in the north of Mexico years ago, after a mass grave was discovered.
Well, now the mass graves are happening here in the states, big ones, consistent with huge human smuggling syndicates and the cartel organized cash it takes to organize them. Freelance border coyotes taking a family at a time across the Rio Grande can't pull off these kinds of operations such as what was found in the truck, which had to have been an experienced operation. That means that someone out there enabled these illegal migrant organizations to get very, very big, both from extended "business," and from the cartel expectation that the truck would never be intercepted nor break down, or whatever it was that happened that led to the truck becoming an abandoned death chamber on a street in San Antonio. Cartels have reportedly been heard in TikTok videos bragging about all the money they were making from human smuggling.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other Texas Republicans put the blame squarely where it belonged.
According to Fox News:
In a tweet, Abbott said Monday evening's discovery rests squarely on Biden. "At Least 42 People Found Dead Inside Truck Carrying Migrants In Texas. These deaths are on Biden," Abbott said, before officials raised the death count to at least 46.
The Republican governor also criticized Biden for not doing enough to secure the southern border.
"They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law," Abbott added.
Several other officials blamed the incident on Biden’s immigration policies, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who called the discovery "horrific" and "wrong.""How many more people have to die before Dems give a da--?" he asked, before making a reference to Biden’s border crisis.
Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican who represents Texas, also tweeted about the incident.
"Today in San Antonio it was 102 degrees. Imagine being abandoned inside an 18-wheeler left to die - 42 people died today - will @AliMayorkas even mention their names?" the lawmaker said, referencing Alejandro Mayorkas, who was nominated by Biden to lead the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.
"Death count rises to 46 with another 16 in the hospital, to include 4 kids. Lord when will the nightmare end," the Republican added in another tweet.
To date, neither Biden, nor Mayorkas, nor border czar Kamala Harris have said a thing about this mass death of migrants at the hands of human smuggling syndicates.
Guilty consciences? Hopes the news cycle will move on to something more palatable? They claim operational control -- and it's pretty obvious they don't have anything like operational control.
There will undoubtedly be talk of getting to the bottom of it, but what's needed is action to ensure it can't happen. The border wall needs to go up. Cartel members and their allies should not be allowed to operate in this country. Human smuggling networks should be cracked down on. Illegal migrants, most of whom will take dangerous risks in the hands of cartels, must know that if they are caught in the states, they will be sent back, making the proposition of working with a cartel to get into America a far less attractive prospect.
Most of all, the border needs checks and controls from the U.S. and Mexican authorities, because abandoning it, as Mayorkas has done, has left it in the hands of cartels. This enhanced security will have to include, unfortunately, stricter inspections of international and cross-border transport trucks, which apparently have been pretty active on the human smuggling front, given this recent mass death incident.
A few weeks ago, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a deal with Mexico's border governors to enhance their border security in exchange for relaxed inspections of trucks. I saw a tweet yesterday by Bill Melugin which does not seem to be up there now, that the governor of Tampaulipas state has not been keeping his end of the bargain and has actually helped actively escort migrants into the south Texas corridors. If the tweet was deleted, it may have been incorrect information, or inadvertantly classified information, or perhaps I am wrong about the source, but if it's true, then the deal should be off and the gloves should be off about what gets inspected at the border. It's an issue that requires further investigation as a potential reason for this surge in dangerous cartel human smuggling traffic into the states.
This by the way, isn't the only industrial scale operation that is being detected -- Fox News's Melugin also found a case where a huge stash of fentanyl from a border operation was found in California around the same time -- and a leftist D.A. actually let the smugglers of that cartel operation out on their own recognizance. The border is indeed open.
In the meantime, where's Joe? Where's Mayorkas? Where's Kamala? This kind of mass death incident has happened once and you can bet it will happen again.
Somebody out there is making a lot of money smuggling illegal migrants into the states and now that they are trafficking in industrial scale volume, human life is getting very, very cheap.
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47 Migrants Found Dead in Abandoned Trailer in Texas Smuggling Incident
Police near San Antonio report that 47 migrants are dead and at least 18 others were transported to local hospitals after being locked inside a tractor-trailer. Officials found the tractor-trailer on the southwest side of San Antonio on a back road near Interstate 35. Police say the driver may have been involved in a human smuggling incident.
A senior law enforcement source on the scene told Breitbart Texas that 47 migrants were declared dead on the scene or at area hospitals and at least 18 others were taken to area hospitals. A source on the scene says they have a person of interest in custody. That person was also reportedly transported to an area hospital. At least 60 migrants were packed inside the trailer.
Due to the circumstances, ICE Homeland Security Investigations special agents were called in and are taking charge of the investigation. Border Patrol agents are also reported to be on the scene.
The law enforcement source told Breitbart the person of interest may have attempted to blend in with the migrants and was transported to a hospital.
At this time, it is not known how law enforcement found the trailer containing the dead migrants. Information about the deceased and injured migrants is also not available.
Earlier this month, local police agents found two migrants dead in a tractor-trailer loaded with 111 migrants, Breitbart Texas reported. La Salle County Sheriff’s deputies responded to frantic 911 calls from migrants being smuggled in a semi-tractor trailer near Encinal, Texas, on Friday. Dispatchers could hear screams from migrants trapped inside the closed trailer traveling north and away from the border on Interstate 35. When the vehicle was encountered, two migrants were dead and 111 were apprehended after an exhaustive search.
Breitbart Texas reached out to HSI officials for additional information. A response was not available at press time. Officials did say they would be sending a statement shortly. This article will be updated at that time.
Nearly five years ago, San Antonio police found another tractor-trailer where eight migrants were dead and 20 others were listed in critical or serious condition.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
Editor’s Note: This is a developing story and will be updated as additional information becomes available.
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