![]() ![]() ![]() The victims had left the shelter, which was already full, the local media reported. Other witnesses told local reporters that the driver showed signs of being intoxicated.īrownsville Mayor Trey Mendez’s office tweeted that there was no indication the crash was intentional, but police are still investigating. The driver yelled obscenities towards the group as his vehicle struck the Venezuelans and later attempted to flee, saying that immigrants were invading the United States, Herrera told the Brownsville Herald. Many of those with him had walked hundreds of miles for many weeks and were feeling lucky they were able to cross the border from Mexico, when they suddenly saw the SUV heading towards them. Luis Herrera was one of those waiting that morning for a bus to take him downtown to board another bus out of the city. Witnesses told the Brownsville Herald that they saw the Range Rover involved traveling at high speed and suddenly change direction towards the immigrants sitting down on the sidewalk in front of the Obispo Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center for the homeless, which had been converted into a migrant shelter because of the hundreds of immigrants passing through the area. While the causes of the incident are still under investigation, comments made by witnesses to the local media suggest it was more than an accident. “It is very painful that after a whole journey like the one our brothers make, after having arrived in the United States, something like this happens.” “This is a terrible tragedy,” said María Antonietta Díaz, president of the Venezuelan American Alliance, a South Florida-based organization that advocates for the interests of Venezuelan immigrants. The news, which for many came through heartbreaking videos posted on social media, rasied alarms among leaders of the Venezuelan community in the United States concerned over the risks faced by thousands of Venezuelans who, after fleeing the Nicolás Maduro regime, find themselves vulnerable in the United States. Authorities are investigating whether it was intentional, but one bystander later said the driver yelled obscenities towards the immigrants before he attempted to flee. At least eight people were killed and nine others left seriously injured in the incident. ![]() border translated into sheer terror, as they waited for a bus on a sidewalk of a Brownsville Texas street Sunday morning, when an SUV hurtling down the street suddenly veered towards the group, most of them Venezuelan immigrants, and mowed them down. Most of them had crossed the Andes mountains in Colombia and crossed the jungles in Panama on foot to defy all sorts of dangers in Central America and México hoping to reach the American dream.īut what they found once they crossed the U.S. ![]()
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