Mexican president says smuggling, poverty and 'lack of control' led to San Antonio migrant deaths

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Mexican president says smuggling, poverty and 'lack of control' led to San Antonio migrant deaths

He attributed the tragedy to 'poverty and desperation of our Central American brother and of Mexicans.'
By Michael Karlis on Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 4:26 pm
 
Mexican President Andrés Manual López Obrador had criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's enhanced commercial truck inspections in April.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed the deaths of 50 migrants found in an abandoned truck in San Antonio on human smugglers, poverty and a "lack of control" at the U.S-Mexican border, the Express-News reports.

López Obrador's comments come two months after he criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's enhanced commercial truck inspections at the border, which temporarily slowed U.S.-Mexico trade to a crawl at several key crossings.

So far, 22 of the migrants found in the tractor-trailer rig in San Antonio been identified as being from Mexico, while seven are from Guatemala and two from Honduras. Officials are still working to identify the others, according to the Express-News.

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/mexican-president-says-smuggling-poverty-and-lack-of-control-led-to-san-antonio-migrant-deaths-29240714

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He's deflecting the reality of the situation.  It seems to me since the driver was high on meth., the more proximate cause was drugs, particularly the drugs being smuggled from Mejico.