Why were they covered in spices?
Is this some kind of cannibal ritual? Was the truck intended to be a pressure cooker?
Chilling new details emerged Tuesday in the Texas border horror that left at least 51 migrants dead — including how victims stuffed in the truck were allegedly sprinkled with steak seasoning to mask their odor.
A law-enforcement official said many of the estimated 100 people jammed into the tractor-trailer in San Antonio appeared to have been covered in spices to cover up the smell during the human-smuggling tragedy, according to the Texas Tribune.
A cry for help coming from the 18-wheeler that was found abandoned on the southern outskirts of town Monday evening led to the discovery of “stacks of bodies’’ inside the vehicle, officials said.
Bodies also were found for blocks around the truck’s location, suggesting that some of the migrants had tried to make their escape while the vehicle was still moving, the San Antonio Express-News said.
The illicit rig had apparently been made to look like a properly registered truck in an effort to evade detection.
The truck was “cloned,” said the owner of a local Alamo-based trucking company to the Express-News — with it painted to match one of his own, right down to copying his legal vehicle’s Department of Transportation registration number.
“Our reefer [refrigerated trailer] is sitting right in the yard,” said Felipe Betancourt Jr., who owns Betancourt Trucking with his father. “That one in San Antonio is not our trailer.”
While the truck in San Antonio was made to look like a refrigerated truck, “There was no visible working AC unit on that rig,” said San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood.
We keep hearing about how this is all about human rights and democracy. Meanwhile, these people are sprinkling immigrants with steak spices before they cook them alive, which sounds to me like some kind of cannibal conspiracy at best.
Are cannibal pressure cooker vans our values in a democracy?
Gonna have to run that past Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney, because I literally have no idea what “our values in a democracy” means, and as far as I know it could mean “cannibal taco delight.”
Border patrol: What’s in the truck, Paco?
Paco: Just steaks, officer.
Border patrol: Human steaks?
Paco: Yes, officer.
Border patrol: Alright then. Head on through.