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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 5, 2021 13:36:42 GMT
Associated Press
At least 10 dead as van carrying migrants crashes in Texas
TERRY WALLACE
Wed, August 4, 2021, 5:57 PM
An overloaded van carrying 29 migrants crashed Wednesday on a remote South Texas highway, killing at least 10 people, including the driver, and injuring 20 others, authorities said.
The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m. on U.S. 281 in Encino, Texas, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of McAllen. Sgt. Nathan Brandley of the Texas Department of Public Safety says the van, designed to hold 15 passengers, was speeding as the driver tried to veer off the highway onto Business Route 281. He lost control of the top-heavy van, which slammed into a metal utility pole and a stop sign.
The van was not being pursued, said Brooks County Sheriff Urbino Martinez.
The sheriff said he believed all of the passengers were migrants. Brandley said the death toll was initially announced as 11 but was later revised. He also said the 20 who survived the initial crash all have serious to critical injuries.
The identities of the 30 in the van were being withheld until relatives can be notified, Brandley said. No information about the van, including where it was registered or who owned it, was immediately released.
Encino is a community of about 140 residents about 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) south of the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint.
A surge in migrants crossing the border illegally has brought about an uptick in the number of crashes involving vehicles jammed with migrants who pay large amounts to be smuggled into the country. The Dallas Morning News has reported that the recruitment of young drivers for the smuggling runs, combined with excessive speed and reckless driving by those youths, have led to horrific crashes.
Good thing our borders are locked down tight. ![[rolleye1]](//storage.proboards.com/7182076/images/MTjbungPBOzv0BKQvdPJ.gif) The latest variant of covid has no shot at drifting around now. |
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Post by Prometheus on Aug 6, 2021 3:45:23 GMT
Associated Press
At least 10 dead as van carrying migrants crashes in Texas
TERRY WALLACE
Wed, August 4, 2021, 5:57 PM
An overloaded van carrying 29 migrants crashed Wednesday on a remote South Texas highway, killing at least 10 people, including the driver, and injuring 20 others, authorities said.
The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m. on U.S. 281 in Encino, Texas, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of McAllen. Sgt. Nathan Brandley of the Texas Department of Public Safety says the van, designed to hold 15 passengers, was speeding as the driver tried to veer off the highway onto Business Route 281. He lost control of the top-heavy van, which slammed into a metal utility pole and a stop sign.
The van was not being pursued, said Brooks County Sheriff Urbino Martinez.
The sheriff said he believed all of the passengers were migrants. Brandley said the death toll was initially announced as 11 but was later revised. He also said the 20 who survived the initial crash all have serious to critical injuries.
The identities of the 30 in the van were being withheld until relatives can be notified, Brandley said. No information about the van, including where it was registered or who owned it, was immediately released.
Encino is a community of about 140 residents about 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) south of the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint.
A surge in migrants crossing the border illegally has brought about an uptick in the number of crashes involving vehicles jammed with migrants who pay large amounts to be smuggled into the country. The Dallas Morning News has reported that the recruitment of young drivers for the smuggling runs, combined with excessive speed and reckless driving by those youths, have led to horrific crashes.
Good thing our borders are locked down tight. The latest variant of covid has no shot at drifting around now.
Let us know which hits the pavement first: the baby or the bathwater.
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 6, 2021 12:09:30 GMT
Let us know which hits the pavement first: the baby or the bathwater.
They could have easily titled this piece America Beheaded by Illegal Immigrant
Wonder what hit the pavement first there?
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Post by Prometheus on Aug 6, 2021 22:50:49 GMT
Let us know which hits the pavement first: the baby or the bathwater.
They could have easily titled this piece America Beheaded by Illegal Immigrant
Wonder what hit the pavement first there?
Except that I don't see the words "illegal immigrant" at all in the story you linked, so.... ![[giveup]](//storage.proboards.com/7182076/images/FSYefibmKqtatIXMgHZg.gif) |
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 7, 2021 0:24:07 GMT
Except that I don't see the words "illegal immigrant" at all in the story you linked, so....
you know what's funny/sad about that?........... it's been the trend in the media for decades now.
Omitting certain facts.....so as not to offend certain people.....or to push a certain agenda........ Decades!
My understanding is he should have been deported in the past. But America loves nothing more than shitting on it's own citizens while defending the 'rights' of people from other countries.
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Post by Prometheus on Aug 7, 2021 3:25:50 GMT
Except that I don't see the words "illegal immigrant" at all in the story you linked, so....
you know what's funny/sad about that?........... it's been the trend in the media for decades now.
Omitting certain facts.....so as not to offend certain people.....or to push a certain agenda........ Decades!
My understanding is he should have been deported in the past. But America loves nothing more than shitting on it's own citizens while defending the 'rights' of people from other countries.
Thanks for the update.
And it looks like they tried to deport him but Cuba didn't want him back. What were we supposed to do with him? Throw him in jail until Cuba said, "OK"?
I mentioned the same problem in another post.
However, the one thing that always makes you look a bit racist, is that you constantly post when an immigrant commits a crime (other than the obvious crime of illegal entry) as if somehow deporting all of them and throwing up walls around the country will suddenly stop crime, murder, etc., and you damn well don't want to talk about the millions of illegals who haven't committed any crime other than their illegal entry. It's as if you just want everyone to believe that every illegal immigrant is just as bad (or potentially so) as this guy... as if they (the brown ones) are somehow lesser human beings.
We have plenty of homegrown crime as well and you know that. You can't help but point out how much of it comes from areas with people who look less like a lily than you.
But you don't want to make the process of immigration easier. You don't want people to get good educations. You don't want them to be healthy. You don't want them to be able to commute easily to where the better jobs are. You want them right where they are and in the same situation just to make it easier for you to point at them as "bad people"... who all just happen to be brown.
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 7, 2021 12:28:16 GMT
Thanks for the update.
And it looks like they tried to deport him but Cuba didn't want him back. What were we supposed to do with him? Throw him in jail until Cuba said, "OK"?
I mentioned the same problem in another post.
However, the one thing that always makes you look a bit racist, is that you constantly post when an immigrant commits a crime (other than the obvious crime of illegal entry) as if somehow deporting all of them and throwing up walls around the country will suddenly stop crime, murder, etc., and you damn well don't want to talk about the millions of illegals who haven't committed any crime other than their illegal entry. It's as if you just want everyone to believe that every illegal immigrant is just as bad (or potentially so) as this guy... as if they (the brown ones) are somehow lesser human beings.
We have plenty of homegrown crime as well and you know that. You can't help but point out how much of it comes from areas with people who look less like a lily than you.
But you don't want to make the process of immigration easier. You don't want people to get good educations. You don't want them to be healthy. You don't want them to be able to commute easily to where the better jobs are. You want them right where they are and in the same situation just to make it easier for you to point at them as "bad people"... who all just happen to be brown.
We have one of the largest and most expensive militaries in the world. Strap a parachute to him and drop him while flying over their island paradise.
Not at all. We've got plenty of our own homegrown criminals. If they account for 100 crimes......and an illegal accounts for 1, then I simply view that as 1 crime more than was necessary to tolerate or expect.
I'd prefer to talk about the millions of immigrants that did things the right way and didn't skip the line. They seem to appreciate the US more so than others. Don't be silly...... I have no problem believing that the crime rate is greater with US citizens than Illegals.........although I would slightly question the accuracy of those stats, too. We getting a lot of accuracy over the last few decades? 10 million? 20? or is it 30 now? They KNOW. They're lying.
There's plenty of pale people committing crimes. Heck, most of the drug use and criminal activity in this area is by pale white people. Most of the EBT fraud and welfare cases I've seen over the years are caucasians. You figure I'm OK with them because they're paleskins?
Actually, I'd prefer to stop ALL immigration for a few years. Then I'd have several requirements I'd like to see put into place in order to come to the US from this point forward. If it were anything like some other places, there'd certainly be a lot less poverty being brought to the US.......again, we've got plenty of our own. And they haven't fixed that yet. It's almost like the two things might be related to one another?
I DO want people to get a good education. You're supposedly a very good teacher. But you're not HERE where it's needed. You're educating students whose parents actually value the process THERE. It's not MY fault so many areas in the US have decades long records of failing to deliver an even acceptable level of education for all the money spent. Healthy? People choose what they do for food and exercise, etc. I've not volunteered to adopt them or their kids. Where do you collectivists even come up with this mindset? Freedom is scary and risky. You believe they can't be trusted with it? Then you're willing to throw away some peoples' freedoms because others lack the responsibility? MOVE to where the better jobs are! You did it.......and it wasn't just the next town over, was it?
Dude, you really need to find another accusation.......cuz it just ain't accurate at all.
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