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2017-07-25 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Adan Lara Vega: We were told Mexican Winnebago would be air conditioned

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-25 00:53|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Thanks to one of yesterday's posts on the Burg, I can't get the metaphors of Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" off my mind.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-07-25 01:23|| 2017-07-25 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 We endeavor to please.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-25 01:34|| 2017-07-25 01:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Adan Lara Vega said he was told the $5,500 he was being charged to be smuggled into the United States would include an air-conditioned truck ride.

The driver just forgot to seat him in the first class section, the truck cab. It could have been worse, it could have been Delta.

Posted by Butch Sheath9092 2017-07-25 01:47|| 2017-07-25 01:47|| Front Page Top

#4 $5,500 is a lot of money for someone from Central America.

What the media censors out, is how much this is an organised criminal activity, where those who get to the USA, or Europe for that matter, end up indebted to criminal gangs, and thus forced into criminality.

As I have said before, the solution is a combination of harsh penalties to anyone who hires an illegal, and temporary work permits which employers pay in the region of a few thousand dollars per annum for.

Posted by phil_b 2017-07-25 04:12|| 2017-07-25 04:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Was Delta in charge of this trip too?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-25 09:15|| 2017-07-25 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 an air-conditioned truck ride

Not enough flow thru the bullet holes?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-25 09:27|| 2017-07-25 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 The air was conditioned.

Heavy on the carbon dioxide

Posted by Frank G 2017-07-25 09:33|| 2017-07-25 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 The question which no one has asked yet is how that truck got through the Border patrols secondary check point outside Laredo (normally 60 miles inside the border)? Down here in McAllen we have a secondary check (choke) point in Falfurrias loaded with a menagerie of sensors and cell phone jammers. The Border Patrol should have images and intercepts linking the human traffickers to the shipment.

Posted by Joe of the Jungle 2017-07-25 09:56|| 2017-07-25 09:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Ones and twos through and around the secondary check-point, with the rendezvous area beyond?

Posted by Pappy 2017-07-25 11:25|| 2017-07-25 11:25|| Front Page Top

#10 NAFTA licensed for thru passage?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-25 14:21|| 2017-07-25 14:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Someone who pays $5,500 to come here must be expecting to make a lot more than that while here.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-07-25 20:29|| 2017-07-25 20:29|| Front Page Top

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