For many Americans it is hard to imagine what it would take to force us to give up all that we have and make a journey to a foreign country, risking our possessions and lives for a chance at a little bit better future. But that is what is happening right now as I am typing, right now as you are reading. And that is why, dehydrated and crammed in the back of an abandoned truck like animals 142 Central American migrants, mainly Guatemalans were rescued by Mexican authorities yesterday.

Among them were dozens of children, some very young, who were saved thanks to an anonymous call that informed the authorities about the presence of the abandoned truck on the edge of a road in Amatlán de los Reyes, a municipality in Veracruz.

Red Cross doctors were asked to assist the migrants, who have then been placed in the hands of the migratory services which will be responsible for their deportation.

The 142 people arrived from Chiapas, crammed in a trailer which measured just forty feet by eight wide, with only a few fans to withstand the intense heat. Once they realized that they had been abandoned, they tried in vain to open the door and shouted for help.

The migratory flow to the United States was swelled at the end of 2018. The repression of the Mexican authorities is increasing, while the migrants are returned to the mafias and traffickers.