Save Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomas from the deadly end met by 53 other immigrants when the truck was abandoned in the suburbs last week, on the advice of a friend near the semi-trailer door. May have beenof San Antonio.
Guatemala's20-year-old Cardona Thomas from the capital said in a telephone interview from a hospital bed on Monday that it was already hot on June 27. Said. She left her waiting warehouse on the Texas side of the Mexican border and climbed behind the trailer.
It seems that the smuggler has confiscated the mobile phone, covered the floor of the trailer with what she believes to be powdered chicken bouillon, and abandoned the dogs that could be encountered at the checkpoint. The powder stabbed her skin as dozens of people sat in a stuffy trailer.
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Recalling a friend's advice about being near the door in a cool place, Cardona Tomas was made by her I shared it with another friend during the trip.
"I told my friend that I should stay near (entrance) to the same place instead of going behind," Cardona being treated at the Methodist Hospital Metropolitan. Thomas said. San Antonio. Her friend also survived.
As the trucks moved and stopped further to welcome more immigrants, people began to gather near the door, like Cardona Tomas. She had no way of tracking time.
"People were screaming, some cried. Most women were too hot to breathe and asked to stop and open the door," she said. Told.
She is a driver or taxi Someone yelled, "I've arrived soon. I have 20 minutes and 6 minutes left."
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"People sought water, some were scarce, others carried some," she said. The
track kept stopping from time to time, but was moving slowly just before she lost her consciousness. She woke up in the hospital.
The driver and three others were arrested and charged by US prosecutors.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala has stated that 20 Guatemalans have died in the incident, 16 of which have been clearly identified. Foreign Minister Mario Bukaro said he hopes the first body will be returned this week.
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Cardona Tomas, the track's destination for the day was Houston, but she eventually headed to North Carolina.
Her father, Minor Cordon, said on her Monday in the city of Guatemala, where her family lives, when she moved to the United States, "She has no job and I have her. I asked if I would support him. " He said he had just left without telling her family and he decided to help her because she knew of other cases of her children disappearing and dying. ..
He paid her smuggler $ 4,000 and took her to the United States. She left Guatemala on May 30 and traveled by car, bus, and finally a Texas semi-trailer.
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"I didn't know she was traveling on a trailer," he said. "She told us it was on foot. At the last moment, the smuggler seems to have decided to put (her) in the trailer with her two surviving friends. One of them. Is still in crisis. "
Cordon was in contact with her daughter until the morning of June 27. Her last message that Monday was 10:28 am in Guatemala and 11:28 am in Texas. .. "We're going in an hour," she wrote.
It wasn't until late that night that the Cardona Tomas family learned of the abandoned trailer. It was only two days before a relative in the United States confirmed that she was alive and hospitalized.
"We cried very much," Cordon said. "I was wondering where to wake her up and bury her. She's a miracle."
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