13 killed 25 people in Ford Expedition

Customs and Border Protection said on Wednesday that 13 people died after a half-truck collided with their packed SUV near the US-Mexico border, they were among 44 people who entered the United States through a 10-foot hole in the southern California border fence. “They entered the United States illegally.” The agency said that the border patrol is investigating the incidents of smuggling. Two cars were seen in a surveillance video leaving the fence opening area around 6 a.m. Pacific Time, according to the agency, where one of the cars was transported, namely The Chevrolet Suburban, 19 people, caught fire after entering The agency said that travel 30 miles to the intersection of Highway 8 and State Road 115. All passengers fled the car and were detained by border agents, and it was not immediately clear what caused the fire, while the car was in The other, a 1997 Ford Expedition with loose seats, carrying 25 people when it collided with a large platform next to the SUV at the highway patrol division, Omar Watson, said that the intersection of SAR 115 and Norrish Road near Holtville, California, and the accident happened some distance away. About 10 miles north of the border. A Mexican government official said that at least 10 of the dead were Mexican citizens. The agency said, “At no time” the border patrol attempted “to stop or chase any of the vehicles.” It is about 30 miles east of the avalanche in the heart of California’s Imperial Valley, a major agricultural region. “The area has always been an important route for illegal border crossing. We are praying for the victims of the accident and their families during this difficult time,” Gregory Bofino, head of the El Centro Division of Border Patrol, said in a statement. “People smugglers have proven time and time again that they do not care much about human life. Those who contemplate crossing the border illegally should stop to think about the dangers that often end in tragic tragedies. Unfortunately, our Border Patrol agents and first responders are it. Derayah. ”In a statement, association member Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, whose district includes Rally 56 that includes Holtville, offered his condolences to the victims and stressed that” comprehensive immigration reform “is necessary to prevent the dangers people face while crossing the border. The broken immigration system is a humanitarian, general and economic crisis affecting communities on both sides of the border. “Tragedies like these place a greater public interest in the dark realities of the immigration struggle in the United States and the dangers immigrant families face to gain a chance at a better life.” Breaking news: At least 13 people killed after a truck collided with an SUV carrying 25 people near Here’s what we know now: What happened in the accident? A preliminary report released Tuesday by the Highway Patrol said the SUV, driven by a 28-year-old Mexican citizen, had “entered the intersection directly in front of” a Peterbelt truck. Police said it was not clear why the SUV entered the intersection, but the truck collided with its left side, killing the driver immediately, and Watson said 12 people were killed at the scene and the 13th person died in hospital. Watson said several people were kicked out of the car while others managed to get out by the time the police responded. “It would be premature to speculate or discuss the cause of this collision. What we have to bear in mind is that 13 people died in this accident,” Watson said on Tuesday. “It’s a very sad situation,” the police said. The police said that the accident was clearer visually, as paramedics took 11 people to hospitals in the area. Seven went to El Centro Regional Medical Center, where one of them died. The condition of three of these patients was not immediately available on Wednesday, but the remaining three were transferred to Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Brawley, and of these three, one was released with minor injuries while the other two were transferred to Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego. . Carina Lopez, the Pioneers public affairs coordinator, said they were scheduled to be treated for the life-threatening injuries, and back in 2016, there were three crashes on Highway 115 and Norrish Road. The names of the victims. Police said the ages of those in the SUV ranged from 15 to 53 years. No children were killed in the accident. The driver was from Mexicali, Mexico. Roberto Velasco, director of North American affairs at the Mexican Foreign Relations Department, confirmed that 10 of the dead were Mexicans, and the Mexican Consulate in Calexico said on Wednesday that it had begun notifying the families of the Mexican citizens who were killed in the accident, but that they had shared some new details. Consulate press officer: “We know that there are families in the United States, as well as in several states in Mexico. The consulate has contacted six families of the deceased individuals.” The consulate refused to disclose whether the ten Mexicans who were killed, and the others who were injured, were part of a smuggling operation, referring to US officials. The six families are located in San Diego; The remaining families are in Mexico. Four Mexican citizens with minor injuries were released from the hospital in El Centro on Tuesday and were not in the custody of US immigration or border officials, as one man, Tony Hernandez, told Univision of his relatives from Michoacan, 25 and 32, who died in the accident. He said they are on their way to Los Angeles. “I’ve already spoken to my relatives. He destroyed them,” Hernandez said. Truck driver Joe Beltran, 68, was also taken from El Centro to hospital with “serious injuries”, according to the initial crash report. Several people in the SUV, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, said in a statement that special agents from the San Diego Homeland Security Investigation Unit “have launched an investigation into people smuggling” but did not provide further details. 2000 pounds. Frank Boris, former chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defect Investigation, said that if it had 25 people inside, it would easily exceed the payload limit, taxing the brakes and making steering more difficult. “To extend stopping distances, delayed reactions to steering inputs and potential overreaction to any kind of high-speed lane change,” said Boris, who now runs the safety consulting firm. Not carrying much weight, Boris said. “With all that load above the car’s center of gravity, it makes it more unstable.” What does the area look like? Barely a mile from the crash site, the unmarked brick cemetery is a cemetery for immigrants who died crossing the border from Mexico. In 2001, John Hunter founded the Water Station, a volunteer group that leaves jugs of water in giant plastic barrels for dehydrated migrants. “I was trying to figure out how to stop the deaths,” said Hunter, whose brother Duncan has vigorously defended the construction of the border wall as a member of Congress. In the early 2000s, the El Centro sector, which covers most of the Imperial province’s border with Mexico, was among the busiest smuggling routes along the US-Mexico border, according to Border Patrol statistics. But fears began to decrease dramatically after 2007, when the US government upgraded the border fence along the area, and the number of immigrant concerns has remained steady since then. They have reached the bottom after Donald Trump took office in 2017. But they have climbed steadily again, culminating in October 2020, despite border restrictions on the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trump administration has installed more than 20 miles of 30-foot-long barrier fencing. In the El Centro sector, including the first sections of the new parapets that were completed during his reign. According to holding another 11 miles of fencing, there are 13 miles of secondary barriers in the pre-construction phase, according to the CBP. But it remains unclear whether these sections will be built, as President Joe Biden has pledged to stop building the border wall. Tuesday’s breakthrough occurred at the border fence, before the deadly collapse, in an area where an old fence had been erected after 2007. From steel poles built before Trump covered most of the border with taller barriers that go deep into the ground, and while concerns have declined in El Centro in recent months, the The number of immigrants encountered by border agents along the entire US-Mexico border is higher. In January, agents arrested more than 75,000 migrants, the highest number since the dramatic increase in the number of immigrant families in 2019, inundating border officials, and the area is also a major transit area for thousands of agricultural workers crossing the border. Legally every day. The Imperial Valley, which provides plenty of lettuce, onions, broccoli, and winter vegetables to American supermarkets, wraps up the winter harvest. Numerous workers commute daily from Mexico during the harvest season, taking buses and 4x4s to the fields from downtown Calexico just before dawn. United Farm Workers spokesman Mark Grossman said union workers had learned that people in the car were not farm workers, despite tragedies like this. It was painfully common for farm workers. He referred to an accident that occurred in 1999 that killed 13 tomato pickers in the western province of Fresno after many of them collided with their own tools. Contributing to: Raphael Carranza, Kate Cimini, Emily Likose, Crystal Hayes, USA Today; Associated Press; Colin Ataghi, (Palm Springs) Desert Sun; Javier RC, no Arizona win