Amid Growing Anti-Immigrant Hate, 8 Killed as Driver Plows Into Group Near Migrant Shelter in Texas

Earlier today, Kit Johnson blogged about the tragic killings in Texas over the weekend.  Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviews human rights activist Jennifer Harbury about the migrants — many of them apparently Venezuelans — killed near a shelter in South Texas.

According to NBC News, the driver of the vehicle that killed eight and injured ten, was identified by authorities identified as George Alvarez.  The victims were waiting at a stop near the Ozanam Center, a migrant shelter in Brownsville.  Brownsville Police Chief Felix Sauceda said authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the crash was intentional.

The Independent (United Kingdom) reported that “[a] witness to the car crash that killed eight people outside [the] migrant shelter . . . says the driver made anti-immigrant remarks before he was detained by members of the public.”

KJ