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ILLEGAL ALIENS NO MORE

HIGH TEMPERATURE PEST CONTROL TREATMENT
(Will Demoncrats exploit this "crisis" to demand an illegal alien amnesty bill?)

50 migrants believed dead after they were found in a semitruck in San Antonio, official says, with others hospitalized

Fifty migrants are believed to have died after they and others were found in sweltering conditions in a semitruck in San Antonio, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday, in a scene the [left wing] mayor called a "horrific human tragedy."

The death toll, which the city's fire chief gave Monday as 46, includes [illegal alien] migrants from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Their discovery Monday comes as US federal authorities have launched an "unprecedented" operation to disrupt human smuggling networks amid an influx of migrants at the US-Mexico border.

"An alleged human smuggling event" was alerted by San Antonio police to the US Department of Homeland Security's investigation unit, which is leading the probe, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said Monday. The incident appears to be among the most deadly in recent years for migrants near the southern border.

Three people detained away from the trailer site are in police custody, though their connection to the situation is unclear, Police Chief Bill McManus said at a news conference Monday night.

Authorities were alerted to the scene just before 6 p.m., when a worker in a nearby building heard a cry for help, McManus said. The worker found a trailer with doors partially opened and saw people deceased inside, McManus said.

Forty-eight people died on the scene, and two died at hospitals, the federal law enforcement official told CNN on Tuesday, noting the toll is preliminary.

Sixteen people -- 12 adults and four children -- were taken alive and conscious to medical facilities, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said at Monday night's news conference.

Patients were hot to the touch and suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion, Hood said. The refrigerator semitractor-trailer had no visible working air conditioning unit, and there was no sign of water inside, he said.

High temperatures Monday in the San Antonio area ranged from the high 90s to low 100s, according to the National Weather Service.

"None of these people were able to extricate themselves out of the truck," Hood said. "So they were still in there, awaiting help, when we arrived ... meaning just being too weak -- weakened state -- to actually get out and help themselves."

Those in the truck included at least 22 Mexicans, seven Guatemalans and two Hondurans, the federal law enforcement official said.

Federal authorities are trying to figure out the origin of the truck and its path, the official said, adding it's not clear how long people inside the truck had been dead. (read more)

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