Latinos in Texas

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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It is being described as the deadliest human smuggling incident in US history after more than 50 men, women and children were found dead in an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas, in the United States. The temperature inside was close to 40 degrees Celsius - more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. One police chief called it a “crime against humanity”. The incident has once again provoked discussion about those who risk their lives to fulfil their dream of getting into America. Host James Reynolds hears conversations with Latinos in Texas, talking about their experiences of growing up within two cultures.

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0:22.1	Hello I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS Conversations
0:27.6	Latinos in Texas.
0:32.4	We've been bringing together Latinos to share their stories of being in America.
0:37.3	Their discussions are in reaction to the deaths of more than 50 migrants who were found
0:42.3	in an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas.
0:45.8	This woman lives near where the trailer was discovered.
0:48.7	You almost always want to die around the people you love and to think that they came across
0:54.4	thousands of miles.
0:56.4	And then died alone.
0:58.5	You cannot begin to fathom what that must have been like.
1:04.4	It's being described as the deadliest human smuggling incident in US history.
1:09.3	Sadly it's not the only mass casualty event near the US-Mexico border.
1:15.0	People continue to risk their lives trying to cross that border illegally.
1:19.4	Last year 650 people died in the process.
1:23.6	We simply wanted to realise the dream of living in America.
1:27.0	We may never know all the individual reasons for those being on board the truck in San Antonio.
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