6/20/2023 0 Comments Last stop auto“Come on up front,” Naftali firmly tells one of them. The boys look up at him, disgruntled and wary. It will never cease to amaze Naftali, the authority he holds in this big yellow vehicle. He parks, pulls in the stop signs on the side of the bus, and turns around. The bus is a monstrous thing to park on the side of a quiet street, loud and bright and blocking half of the lane. He pulls the bus over before he intervenes. Naftali glances at the mirror, catches sight of two boys with dark glares and fists raining down upon each other. “ He can back off.” Something clatters to the floor - glasses? Not broken glasses again - then there’s a ragged yell and more fists pummeling bodies. There’s a return blow, equally powerful, and the sound of a boy crashing to the ground.Ī hoarse voice, filled with rage. There’s a grunt, then a howl, the cries of other boys around the aggressor. ![]() He knows, without turning around, the source of the noises from the back of the bus: a fist slamming into a chest, a body thrown against the side of a seat. It will never cease to amaze Naftali, the authority he holds in this big yellow vehicle Travis Loller contributed to this report from Nashville, Tenn.They stop, just like that. Valerie Gonzalez reported from McAllen, Texas. “We are all extremely sad and heartbroken to have such a tragedy in our neighborhood,” he said. ![]() Vicente González said Sunday that local officials are in communication with the federal government about the crash. Rochelle Garza, president of the Texas Civil Rights Project, said in a statement shared Sunday afternoon: “I hope that today serves as a wake up call, and that state officials will begin investing in a humanitarian response that might have helped the people who were impacted by this morning’s tragedy.” While the shelter offers migrants transportation during the week, they also use the city’s public transportation. “In the last two months, we’ve been getting 250 to 380 a day,” Maldonado said. ![]() In the last several weeks, an uptick in border crossings prompted the city to declare an emergency as local, state and federal resources coordinated enforcement and humanitarian response. The Ozanam shelter can hold 250, but many who arrive leave the same day. “Most of the people coming across don’t want to stay in Brownsville, but we don’t have enough buses for them to buy their ticket to leave,” Cardenas said. “So, we’re trying to make sure they’re as comfortable as they can be so they don’t have to go out and look for anywhere else.” “We don’t want them wandering around outside,” Pedro Cardenas, a city commissioner, said Sunday after the crash. The surge in the number of migrants this week has prompted Brownsville commissioners to indefinitely extend a declaration of emergency during a special meeting Thursday. Police retrieved a blood sample and sent it to a Texas Department of Public Safety lab to test for intoxicants. ![]() “Then we’ll fingerprint him and (take a) mug shot, and then we can find his true identity.” “He’s being very uncooperative at the hospital, but he will be transported to our city jail as soon as he gets released,” Sandoval said. In order for us to find out exactly what happened, we have to eliminate the other two. Sandoval said there are three possible explanations for the collision: “It could be intoxication it could be an accident or it could be intentional. There were no passengers in the car, and police didn’t immediately know the driver’s name or age, Sandoval said Sunday afternoon. The driver was taken to the hospital for injuries sustained when the car rolled over, Sandoval said. On Thursday, 4,000 of about 6,000 migrants in Border Patrol custody in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley were Venezuelan. Brownsville has seen a surge of Venezuelan migrants over the last two weeks for unclear reasons, authorities said. Most of the victims were Venezuelan men, Maldonado said.
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