CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES.-A Mexican migrant dying in the last hours while trying to enter the United States by the southern border with California through a sewer in the area of San Ysidro, confirmed the Consulate General of Mexico in San Diego.
The death occurred after heavy rains were recorded which increased the currents in the drainage.
An agent from Border patrol report to the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper that he heard cries for help from a gate he opened. Here he found a dead person and a very serious one. Later, reinforcements arrived to rescue other people trapped in the drain.
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Authorities confirmed the rescue of at least 16 other migrants who were in danger when trying to enter Joe Biden-led country, under the same circumstances. One of the rescued – very serious – was taken to a hospital, while others suffered minor injuries and were treated in outpatient clinics in San Diego, according to the Mexican consulate.
“Most” of the undocumented will be deported to Mexico soon, authorities have assured.
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Jeffrey Stephenson, a spokesman for the San Diego Border Patrol, explained that when it rains very hard, human traffickers try to take advantage of U.S. authorities opening some floodgates.
Stephenson added that when it rains a lot, the conditions of these sewers quickly become a dangerous trap. “When it starts to rain, the water goes up. It happens very fast.” he said.
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This method of trying to achieve the American dream began to leave dead in 2019, a year of massive arrivals on the southern border before the coronavirus pandemic complicated the possibility of crossing it.
Although the southern border remains restricted for health reasons, arrests of migrants to cross it irregularly have been growing in the last three months of 2020, according to data from the Office of Customs and Border Protection.