America’s Immigration Death Machine
BY JACOB HORNBERGER
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
A Texas judge recently denied bond to 28-year-old Christian Martinez, one of the two men who have been indicted for the roles they allegedly played in the deaths of 53 migrants in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio. Everyone was shocked over the deaths.
Yesterday immigration officials discovered the bodies of nine migrants who drowned while crossing the Rio Grande in an attempt to enter the United States.
Last month, the Guardian published an article entitled, “The Other Death Valley: Hundreds of Migrants Are Dying in Remote Texas Deserts.”
None of this new. It’s been going on since I was a kid growing up in Laredo, Texas, a border town — more than 50 years ago.
Oh sure, people are shocke...










