Still no traces of migrants who were trapped in a tanker in Texas

• Authorities have not provided more information on the dozens of migrants who were traveling by tanker in Texas.
• The tanker truck was found on Thursday, but there is still no sign of the migrants who would be victims of human trafficking.
• The mystery haunts the case of the tanker full of migrants in Texas.

Although the tanker showed up days ago, what happened to the migrants who said they were trapped inside? The mystery remains unsolved.

At least until this Saturday the authorities

had not reported what happened to the alleged 80 migrants who apparently were trapped inside a tanker in Texas.

A person was in federal custody on Friday as part of an investigation into a mysterious 911 call for a human trafficking case in Texas, federal authorities cited by the AP news agency reported.

No further information could be provided, said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) in a brief statement. A message sent to the federal prosecutor’s office in San Antonio requesting more details was also not returned until Friday, the AP said.

For its part, the Efe news agency also reported the arrest of a person in connection with the case of the white cargo truck, which apparently was transporting about 80 undocumented immigrants inside and from where at least two people reported by phone being on the verge of suffocation, according to local media.

The authorities of Bexar County, where the city of San Antonio (Texas) is based, released on Wednesday, February 10, two audios received by the emergency call service in which apparently two people claimed to be trapped in a truck and they were short of breath, Efe recalled.

“We don’t see anything, we are inside a pipe (tanker). God, we don’t have oxygen, ”one person was heard saying in one of the 911 calls.

“We are like eighty people. The truck is stopped. It makes me think (we are) on the side of the road because you can hear the cars, ”adds the voice in Spanish, while at the same time the laments and moans of other people are heard.

The immigrant, with shortness of breath, manages to answer the operator seconds before the call was cut that apparently he was in a «white pipe,» Efe said.

In another call, the person says with difficulty to the operator: “we are dying”.

Authorities managed to find the tanker on Thursday, after having obtained images from surveillance cameras through a search of the cell phone communication towers where the parked vehicle is seen, Efe said.

In the statement that Efe also mentioned, ICE authorities said that the detained person, who has not yet been identified, could have a connection to a possible human trafficking operation related to immigrants trapped in the tanker in Texas.

Until now, neither the authorities nor the local media nor large news agencies such as AP and Efe have reported whether the whereabouts, nationality or health status of the immigrants are known. The last thing that was reported was that the case «is an ongoing investigation.»

Mundo Hispánico – February 14

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