至少有46人被找到死在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的一辆拖车里，另有两人在附近的医院死亡，这可能是美国近年来最大的移民伤亡事件之一。
墨西哥外交部长马塞洛·埃布拉德援引美国当局提供的信息称，至少22名死者是墨西哥公民，7名危地马拉公民和2名洪都拉斯公民。其他受害者的身份尚未确认。
这不是第一次移民在试图穿越边境进入美国的危险旅程中被集体杀害。
迁移的危险
特别是美国-墨西哥边境已经成为世界上移民穿越的最致命的地方之一，死亡人数每年都在增加国际移民组织报告。Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for
也有数百人在穿越时独自或成群死去。据国际移民组织称，他们中的许多人正在寻求更好的生活质量，希望逃离自然灾害、暴力、贫困或不平等。
该组织的失踪移民项目记录了自2014年以来该地区至少2980人死亡。
许多人选择了潜在的危险路线，这可能会让他们绕过严格的移民政策，如特朗普时代驱逐移民并将他们留在墨西哥的政策等待他们的庇护听证会或使用第42章驱逐移民不允许他们申请庇护。
据报道，边境官员连续拦截了几辆试图将数十名移民偷运到美国的牵引拖车边境执法官员。
美国海关和边境保护局专员克里斯·马格努斯(Chris Magnus)周一对记者表示:“对圣安东尼奥附近发生的这一悲惨的生命损失感到震惊。”。“这表明了移民的绝望，他们会把自己的生命交到冷酷无情的人口走私者手中，这些人根本不尊重人的生命。”
拖拉机拖车死亡
2017年，一辆半挂车内发现8人死亡，另有约30人受伤停在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的沃尔玛停车场。死亡人数后来增加到10人，另有两人在医院接受治疗时死亡。
司机小詹姆斯·马修·布拉德利被判终身监禁，不得假释。
圣安东尼奥警察局长威廉·麦克马纳斯称之为“可怕的悲剧”,并表示这种贩卖“不是孤立的事件”。这种情况经常发生...幸运的是，还有人幸存下来，但这种情况时有发生。”
2003年，19人被困在一辆乳品卡车中丧生，由于移民试图逃离隔热拖车，卡车内的温度升至170度以上。
司机在德克萨斯州的维多利亚停了下来，在那里他放弃了拖车。有55名幸存者。
卡车司机泰伦·威廉姆斯被发现所有罪名成立，判处30多年监禁。
1987年，据德克萨斯论坛报报道19名男子被锁在一辆隔热严密的货车车厢内长达数小时，导致死亡。只有一个人幸存。
这种死亡是一个全球性的问题。2019年10月，39名越南移民在被偷运时被锁在拖车里，在英国窒息死亡。四个人联系在一起因该事件被判入狱。
其他大规模移民死亡
几年来，几起涉及机动车辆的类似事件已经造成数十人死亡。
至少在2021年8月10人死亡，20人受伤一辆载有29名移民的货车在德克萨斯州南部坠毁。
在那之前不久，2021年3月，南加州有13人被杀当一辆载有25名乘客的运动型多功能车开车撞上了一辆拖车，然后撞了车。
2019年，无证移民挤进了一辆汽车，后来当警察开始追捕司机时，这辆汽车撞毁了。六人死亡当汽车转向进入一条沟时。
2012年，一辆皮卡载着大约20名非法移民坠毁并造成15人死亡。
San Antonio mass death in tractor-trailer highlights dangerous plight of migrants
At least 46 people were founddead in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas,and two more have died at a nearby hospital in what may be one of the largest mass migrant casualty events in recent U.S. history.
At least 22 of the deceased are Mexican citizens, seven Guatemalan citizens and two Honduran citizens, according to Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, citing information provided by U.S. authorities. The other victims have yet to be identified.
This isn’t the first time migrants have been killed en masse while attempting the dangerous journey to cross the border into the U.S.
The dangers of migrating
The United States–Mexico border in particular has become one of the deadliest places for migrants to cross in the world, with the number of deaths growing each year, theInternational Organization for Migration reports.
There have also been hundreds of others who die alone or in smaller groups while crossing. Many of them are in search of a better quality of living, hoping to escape natural disasters, violence, poverty or inequality, according to the International Organization for Migration.
The organization’s Missing Migrants Project documented at least 2,980 deaths in the region since 2014.
Many take potentially perilous routes that would potentially allow them to bypass strict immigration policies, such as theTrump-era policy of expelling migrants and keeping them in Mexicoto wait for their asylum hearings or the use of Title 42 to expel migrantswithout allowing them to apply for asylum.
Border officials have continuously stopped several tractor-trailers attempting to smuggle dozens of migrants into the U.S., according toborder enforcement officials.
"Horrified at this tragic loss of life near San Antonio," Chris Magnus, commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters Monday. "This speaks to the desperation of migrants who would put their lives in the hands of callous human smugglers who show no regard for human life."
Tractor-trailer deaths
In 2017, eight people were found dead alongside about 30 others who were injured inside a semitrailerparked in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas. The death toll was later increased to 10 when two others died while being treated at a hospital.
The driver, James Matthew Bradley, Jr., was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus called it a "horrific tragedy” and said such trafficking "is not an isolated incident. This happens quite frequently ... Fortunately, there are people who survived, but this happens all the time.”
In 2003, 19 people were killed after being trapped in a dairy truck, in which temperatures rose above 170 degrees as migrants tried to escape the insulated trailer.
The driver stopped in Victoria, Texas, where he abandoned the trailer. There were 55 survivors.
The truck driver, Tyrone Williams, was foundguilty of all charges and sentenced to more than 30 years in prison.
In 1987,according to the Texas Tribune, 19 men were killed when they were left locked in a heavily insulated boxcar for hours. Only one man survived.
These kinds of deaths are a global problem. In October 2019, 39 Vietnamese migrants suffocated to death in the United Kingdom after being locked in a trailer while being smuggled. Four men connectedwith the incident were jailed.
Other mass migrant deaths
Several similar incidents involving motor vehicles have caused dozens of deaths over the years.
In August 2021, at least10 people died and 20 others were injuredafter a van carrying 29 migrants crashed in South Texas.
Not long before that, in March 2021, 13 people were killed in Southern Californiawhen a sports utility vehicle filled with 25 passengersdrove into the path of a tractor-trailer and crashed.
In 2019, undocumented migrants had packed into a car that later crashed when police began to chase the driver. Six people diedwhen the vehicle veered into a ditch.
And in 2012, a pickup truckcarrying about 20 undocumented migrantscrashed and killed 15 people.
