The director of Migration’s national institute (INM), Francisco Garduño, and other persons in charge of migration policy will have to appear before the Senate to pronounce on the death of 55 people on Thursday due to the overturning of a truck in Chiapas.
“After the painful tragedy in which 55 migrants lost their lives, the Senate will call the public officials responsible for policy in the matter to appear, so that they render a detailed report,” said the president of the Political Coordination Board of the Senate of the Republic, Ricardo Monreal, through his account on the social network Twitter.
Monreal, who described the accident as “a human misfortune,” said the event “warrants a thorough investigation.” “Who was taking them? What companies were moving them? Who did they hire for their transfer? What complicities are there that caused this unfortunate accident that turned into a tragedy that has gone around the world?” He said.
“We cannot simply regret the tragedy, we have to demand investigations, define responsibilities,” Monreal said in a video on Twitter, before arguing that the summons to appear is because “you cannot simply let an event such as this”. “We are going to act responsibly in the Senate,” he pointed out.
The Morenoist senator said that the people who carry out these “dangerous journeys” are “poor migrants, people looking for an alternative life, especially in the United States” and that “they are easily controlled and manipulated by human traffickers.”
The event occurred after the collision between two trucks traveling on the bridge Belisario Domínguez, on the road between the municipalities of Tuxla Y Chiapa de Corzo. More than a hundred people were traveling in the crashed vehicle, most of them from Central America.
After that, President Andrés López Obrador lamented the “tragedy”, which he described as a “very painful” event, while the INM announced that the survivors of the accident will be granted “humanitarian care”, including “accommodation, food and, if accepted, visitor cards for humanitarian reasons.”
Migratory movements have increased in Mexico since October 2018, when caravans with thousands of migrants, mostly Central American, began arriving in the country in an attempt to reach the United States.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx