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Jun 28, 2022, 6 tweets

#BREAKING Mexico president says at least 22 Mexicans among dead in Texas trailer truck, 50 dead in total

#BREAKING White House calls deaths of immigrants in Texas trailer truck 'absolutely horrific and heartbreaking'

#UPDATE US police on Tuesday were investigating the grim discovery of about 50 bodies in and around a trailer truck abandoned in sweltering heat near the Texas city of #SanAntonio, with victims identified as being from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras u.afp.com/wD96

#BREAKING President Biden says Texas migrant deaths show need to go after 'criminal smuggling industry'

#UPDATE US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the mass deaths of migrants trapped in a truck in Texas shows the need to "go after" the criminal smuggling industry

#UPDATE US authorities opened a criminal investigation Tuesday after 50 migrants packed into a stifling trailer died in Texas, with President Joe Biden blaming professional smugglers for the tragedy u.afp.com/wDyP

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