At least four teenagers were among the 53 people who died in San Antonio tragedy

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Plaza Pública mentioned that Maria Sipac had traveled with Tulul and Tepaz Tziac. Her son, 13-year-old Pascual Melvin Guachiac Sipac, additionally died within the tragedy. Sipac “nonetheless has his final message to her on her telephone: ‘Mother, at the moment they’re taking me in a trailer,’” The Washington Submit reported final month. Pascual had been in search of to reunite together with his dad within the U.S., the report mentioned. 

It’s hopefully of some consolation throughout this heart-wrenching time that the households didn’t must make the trek to the capital alone. The Texas Tribune mentioned within the translated report that just about two dozen villagers made the five-hour bus experience with them. “All pooled their assets to pay for the journey.” Tzucubal deputy mayor Alonzo Tepac mentioned within the report that “[t]he factor is, we’re like household, we’re right here to assist and assist.”

Whereas officers mentioned final week it may have probably taken weeks to establish all 53 victims, 47 of the victims have been “conclusively recognized,” NBC Information reviews. “Of them, 22 have been from Mexico, 19 from Guatemala, and 6 from Honduras. Their ages vary from 13 to 55, in accordance with the health worker’s workplace.”

Juan Wilmer and Pascual Melvin weren’t the one kids to perish. Yovani Valencia Olivares and Misael Olivares Monterde, each from Mexico, have been 16. Yovani’s brother, 19-year-old Jair, additionally died within the tragedy. Their mom had informed The Washington Submit on the time that she bought her home to lift the $10,000 that the smuggler was demanding to move her two sons to the U.S. “We don’t know something about them. The uncertainty is killing us,” she had mentioned in that report. “I’ve no tears left.”

Greater than 100 organizations have urged the Division of Homeland Safety to defend the survivors of this tragedy, together with deportation protections and permitting them to use for sure visas which are made out there to victims of crime. Fears that officers could rapidly deport survivors after such a traumatic and felony ordeal should not unfounded. “In earlier mass casualty incidents, victims and witnesses have ended up detained and deported inside hours after being launched from the hospital,” the organizations mentioned.

4 folks have been charged on this incident, “the only deadliest migrant smuggling case in U.S. historical past, in accordance with a Homeland Safety official,” The Texas Tribune reported. It’s unclear up to now if any survivors can be referred to as as a part of the case.

It’s not the primary time the Nahualá municipality has reeled from migrant tragedies; sisters Karla and Griselda Carac drowned on the border. “In line with the nation’s Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presidency, Nahualá reviews that greater than 2,500 of its inhabitants have emigrated to North America,” The Texas Tribune reported, pushed by poverty and close by violence.

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