46 people found dead in tractor trailer near San Antonio

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The solution is to crack down on employers and social welfare benefits. All contact with any level of government should require proof of citizenship or residency. If you take away the ability to easily work and live without documents, a lot of this goes away.

What social welfare benefits do you think people who don't have status in the US are getting?

Their kids go to school and get free meals

Free ER usage. Just walk in and give any fake name and billing address you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The details are horrendous.

Chilling new details emerged Tuesday in the Texas border horror that left at least 51 migrants dead — including how victims stuffed in the truck were allegedly sprinkled with steak seasoning to mask their odor.

A law-enforcement official said many of the estimated 100 people jammed into the tractor-trailer in San Antonio appeared to have been covered in spices to cover up the smell during the human-smuggling tragedy, according to the Texas Tribune.

A cry for help coming from the 18-wheeler that was found abandoned on the southern outskirts of town Monday evening led to the discovery of “stacks of bodies’’ inside the vehicle, officials said.

Bodies also were found for blocks around the truck’s location, suggesting that some of the migrants had tried to make their escape while the vehicle was still moving, the San Antonio Express-News said.

The illicit rig had apparently been made to look like a properly registered truck in an effort to evade detection.

The truck was “cloned,” said the owner of a local Alamo-based trucking company to the Express-News — with it painted to match one of his own, right down to copying his legal vehicle’s Department of Transportation registration number.

“Our reefer [refrigerated trailer] is sitting right in the yard,” said Felipe Betancourt Jr., who owns Betancourt Trucking with his father. “That one in San Antonio is not our trailer.”

While the truck in San Antonio was made to look like a refrigerated truck, “There was no visible working AC unit on that rig,” said San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood.

The truck had apparently suffered a mechanical failure when it was abandoned — with the driver nabbed trying to flee the scene on foot, cops told the New York Times on Tuesday.

The truck driver was apprehended by authorities in a nearby field and taken into federal custody, police said. Two other men also were arrested. Authorities said one of the suspects is an American citizen.

Authorities said the truck crossed the border in Laredo, 150 miles south of San Antonio. The truck then passed through a border checkpoint on Interstate 35, said Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas. It is unclear whether the migrants were in the truck when it apparently cleared the checkpoint.

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Holy moly. money, planning and idiocy on all involved. Just keep peeling the onion back on this illegal immigration operation.

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Anonymous wrote:People being locked in the trailer suggests human trafficking, not immigration.

Not at the southern border with Mexican, Guatemalan and Honduran families. It’s the simple Sneak Into America Forever plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The solution is to crack down on employers and social welfare benefits. All contact with any level of government should require proof of citizenship or residency. If you take away the ability to easily work and live without documents, a lot of this goes away.

What social welfare benefits do you think people who don't have status in the US are getting?

WIC

The other glory of the phony asylum case besides the 3-5 years of doing whatever you want in America and No Showing for your eventual case, is you qualify for all state and federal welfare while you are our guest awaiting your asylum case and verdict. Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The smugglers take the cell phones from the migrants so their routes cannot be traced or contact the authorities.

There's also a very good chance these people were NOT willingly in that truck. They may be part of a human trafficking ring for forced labor or prostitution (read: slavery).

Republicans specially the ones in Texas are all over that stuff. Abbott would never end that type of trafficking.

Abbott really screwed the pooch this time.

How so?
I just regret that Abbott isn't still having trucks inspected at the border.
If the truck crossed carrying the migrants, they would have found them.

This is on Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas. The incompetent Three Stooges.

+1 million

And the dozens of hundreds of other Democrat politicians who push for more acceptance of undocumented immigrants. Simply to increase their work force of cheap labor.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, school checking citizenship would be one huge deterrent. People would come here to work but not bring their families.
Companies not hiring illegal workforce would be another deterrent but it seems like there’s too much interest in cheap labor.
Landlords will also rent for cash…
So I think schools are the only real way

Montgomery County basically now has an entire ‘underground’ economy based on cash. Illegal rentals have proliferated. Landlords are making a killing. They buy SFHs and put in multiple boarders, who pay in cash. Landlord has no rental license, pays no taxes, etc. and often funnels the money overseas.

Undocumented immigrants can easily obtain fake licenses. For example: https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2018/10/woman-allegedly-sold-fake-documents-to-help-people-qualify-for-md-licenses/

Lots of people driving without any auto insurance.

Being an undocumented immigrant in a sanctuary county is quite appealing and there are lots of ways MoCo makes it incredibly welcoming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, school checking citizenship would be one huge deterrent. People would come here to work but not bring their families.
Companies not hiring illegal workforce would be another deterrent but it seems like there’s too much interest in cheap labor.
Landlords will also rent for cash…
So I think schools are the only real way

Montgomery County basically now has an entire ‘underground’ economy based on cash. Illegal rentals have proliferated. Landlords are making a killing. They buy SFHs and put in multiple boarders, who pay in cash. Landlord has no rental license, pays no taxes, etc. and often funnels the money overseas.

Undocumented immigrants can easily obtain fake licenses. For example: https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2018/10/woman-allegedly-sold-fake-documents-to-help-people-qualify-for-md-licenses/

Lots of people driving without any auto insurance.

Being an undocumented immigrant in a sanctuary county is quite appealing and there are lots of ways MoCo makes it incredibly welcoming.

Love those houses with 20+ migrants and 5 dented pickups on the front lawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No more archaic citizenship by birth.

No more open borders

Worker visas for worker only- not spouse, children, parents

Deport all visa overstayers, including ones who marry Americans on Day 91

Streamline asylum cases, too many economic migrants are breaking the system for those true refugees.

Repeat trespassers tagged and never let in and insta-deported.

Tax all remittances.

Fine employers of cash job black market employees. Find and deport tax fraud employees.

Deport anyone with fraudulent or stolen/purchased ID.

All states must require written drivers test and behind the wheel test to convert any other state or international drivers license to a U.S. state one.

Start a Highly skilled migrant visa program to for educated immigrants to self -sponsor. Similar to England (get background check deon, interviews, biometrics, health exam sent, bank accounts, submit resume and college transcript, take toeffl English exam if required)

All of the above would fix illegal and dangerous behaviors and many other terrible problems created by southern border illegal immigration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, school checking citizenship would be one huge deterrent. People would come here to work but not bring their families.
Companies not hiring illegal workforce would be another deterrent but it seems like there’s too much interest in cheap labor.
Landlords will also rent for cash…
So I think schools are the only real way

Montgomery County basically now has an entire ‘underground’ economy based on cash. Illegal rentals have proliferated. Landlords are making a killing. They buy SFHs and put in multiple boarders, who pay in cash. Landlord has no rental license, pays no taxes, etc. and often funnels the money overseas.

Undocumented immigrants can easily obtain fake licenses. For example: https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2018/10/woman-allegedly-sold-fake-documents-to-help-people-qualify-for-md-licenses/

Lots of people driving without any auto insurance.

Being an undocumented immigrant in a sanctuary county is quite appealing and there are lots of ways MoCo makes it incredibly welcoming.

The only thing "sanctuary city" means is that they won't do Border Patrol's job for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The solution is to crack down on employers and social welfare benefits. All contact with any level of government should require proof of citizenship or residency. If you take away the ability to easily work and live without documents, a lot of this goes away.

What social welfare benefits do you think people who don't have status in the US are getting?

Free Public Education. IEPs. ESL. Free Breakfast and lunch. All those things add to to a hefty free social benefit

Public Education gets a lot of its funding locally via property taxes etc. And guess what, those illegals pay in to the property tax by renting properties. So it's not actually "free" to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No more archaic citizenship by birth.

No more open borders

Worker visas for worker only- not spouse, children, parents

Deport all visa overstayers, including ones who marry Americans on Day 91

Streamline asylum cases, too many economic migrants are breaking the system for those true refugees.

Repeat trespassers tagged and never let in and insta-deported.

Tax all remittances.

Fine employers of cash job black market employees. Find and deport tax fraud employees.

Deport anyone with fraudulent or stolen/purchased ID.

All states must require written drivers test and behind the wheel test to convert any other state or international drivers license to a U.S. state one.

Start a Highly skilled migrant visa program to for educated immigrants to self -sponsor. Similar to England (get background check deon, interviews, biometrics, health exam sent, bank accounts, submit resume and college transcript, take toeffl English exam if required)

What do you mean, "highly skilled?" Are you out of touch with the reality of these migrants? We already eagerly hire them by the millions, to work in restaurant kitchens, as cleaning staff, as construction workers, to work in food processing plants, and many many other things with out extraordinary skill or college requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The solution is to crack down on employers and social welfare benefits. All contact with any level of government should require proof of citizenship or residency. If you take away the ability to easily work and live without documents, a lot of this goes away.

What social welfare benefits do you think people who don't have status in the US are getting?

Free Public Education. IEPs. ESL. Free Breakfast and lunch. All those things add to to a hefty free social benefit

Public Education gets a lot of its funding locally via property taxes etc. And guess what, those illegals pay in to the property tax by renting properties. So it's not actually "free" to them.

Lol. That simple huh? Have you seen MCPS proficiency, budget, SES and esol data year over year since 1990? It’s a trending dumpster fire. Just like Los Angeles public schools, but on a lag.

Must be nice to rely on long-standing property tax payors and swing in with 4 never-schooled minors and dump them at MCPS footsteps, after taking them by the SSA office in Wheaton to sign up for more goodies, and CASA se Maryland to get some free advice/ rep for all your new “rights.”

[Anonymous]

Living 10-15 people/home is not contributing equitably to the school system. The cost associated with the increased number of services required for each school is an unfair burden on local tax payers. Abbott is right about that. The federal government should either pay for those services of new arrivals or keep them in schools paid for by federal funds while their case is being reviewed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Living 10-15 people/home is not contributing equitably to the school system. The cost associated with the increased number of services required for each school is an unfair burden on local tax payers. Abbott is right about that. The federal government should either pay for those services of new arrivals or keep them in schools paid for by federal funds while their case is being reviewed.

How did Abbott's murderous incompetency in Texas become a complaint thread about your little neighborhood in Montgomery County or wherever? Go to the local politics forum.

[Anonymous]

Abbott isnt responsible for immigration. 50 people dead because of lack of federal enforcement is why this is happening. There are probably tens of other tractor trailers smuggling 50 more people each at this very moment across the country. The impact to schools-most of which are similarly funded by property taxes - is felt everywhere. This isn't just a local problem. Discussing what happens once they arrive and how-to address it in order to stop the flow is relevant to this thread.