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BREAKING NEWS: School Bus Accident
PRICHARD, AL - A pickup truck ran into a school bus with over a dozen students on board.
It happened at the intersection of Highway 158 and 45 in Prichard.
We know the accident happened around 3:15 p.m. The school bus was carrying students from Dunbar, Clark Shaw and Phillips Prep--14 students in all. We are told no students were taken to the hospital, but the bus driver was.
When we got on the scene, we saw the school bus under the 158 overpass up against a column.Police on the scene said a white Ford F-150 was turning left to merge onto 158, waiting for the school bus to drive by, and he clipped the rear axle of the school bus.
We were able to read a paramedics' lips as he was talking to a student's mom. He seemed to say the student hit his head on a window and when he did, the window cracked.Two students were checked out by EMT's and were cleared to go.Some students were picked up by their parents, others were taken by another school bus that came onto the scene shortly after the accident.
It happened at the intersection of Highway 158 and 45 in Prichard.
We know the accident happened around 3:15 p.m. The school bus was carrying students from Dunbar, Clark Shaw and Phillips Prep--14 students in all. We are told no students were taken to the hospital, but the bus driver was.
When we got on the scene, we saw the school bus under the 158 overpass up against a column.Police on the scene said a white Ford F-150 was turning left to merge onto 158, waiting for the school bus to drive by, and he clipped the rear axle of the school bus.
We were able to read a paramedics' lips as he was talking to a student's mom. He seemed to say the student hit his head on a window and when he did, the window cracked.Two students were checked out by EMT's and were cleared to go.Some students were picked up by their parents, others were taken by another school bus that came onto the scene shortly after the accident.
US-Mexico border braces for summer migrant surge as children risk lives alone
The child-sized blue jeans lay twisted and forlorn in the scrubland along one of the most popular routes for undocumented migrants crossing from Mexico into Texas.
Chris Cabrera surveyed the scene from his white pickup truck. A border patrol agent for 13 years, he knows how to spot the clues, some obvious – like the jeans – others more subtle, like the flattened grass nearby that formed a northwards path through dense bushes.
Its width suggested two or three people walking side by side, which Cabrera said was an indicator of drug smuggling activity: migrant groups tend to move in single file.
“In a week or so that’ll be a really good trail,” he said.
Only a couple of hundred yards away, cars rushed along the Anzalduas international bridge, gateway to one of several legitimate ports of entry in the area.
But spring and summer are peak seasons for crossings by other means. A couple of minutes earlier a border patrol van drove under the bridge along a bone-jangling rutted single-track path, carrying 13 women and children from Guatemala and Honduras who had turned themselves in to border patrol agents.
Mexico crackdown reduced number of child migrants at US border – study Nearly 9,000 fewer minors detained at US-Mexico border so far in 2015 but activists fear migration will continue if violence in Central America not addressed Read more “Every day we’re getting more women and children than the day before,” said Cabrera, 41, a local border patrol union representative. He estimated that 60% of those apprehended are turning themselves in.
It is almost a year since a surge in crossings by unaccompanied Central American children overwhelmed local processing and holding centres and put the Rio Grande Valley at the centre of a humanitarian and political crisis.
Senior security and immigration officials have expressed confidence that this summer will not see a repeat of those scenes: fewer people are attempting to cross the border, a result which officials attribute to a successful campaign in Central America to persuade would-be migrants that even if they reach the US, they will have little prospect of remaining.
A Pew Research Center study published last week suggested that a substantial increase of deportations by Mexican authorities has also had a major effect.
Chris Cabrera surveyed the scene from his white pickup truck. A border patrol agent for 13 years, he knows how to spot the clues, some obvious – like the jeans – others more subtle, like the flattened grass nearby that formed a northwards path through dense bushes.
Its width suggested two or three people walking side by side, which Cabrera said was an indicator of drug smuggling activity: migrant groups tend to move in single file.
“In a week or so that’ll be a really good trail,” he said.
Only a couple of hundred yards away, cars rushed along the Anzalduas international bridge, gateway to one of several legitimate ports of entry in the area.
But spring and summer are peak seasons for crossings by other means. A couple of minutes earlier a border patrol van drove under the bridge along a bone-jangling rutted single-track path, carrying 13 women and children from Guatemala and Honduras who had turned themselves in to border patrol agents.
Mexico crackdown reduced number of child migrants at US border – study Nearly 9,000 fewer minors detained at US-Mexico border so far in 2015 but activists fear migration will continue if violence in Central America not addressed Read more “Every day we’re getting more women and children than the day before,” said Cabrera, 41, a local border patrol union representative. He estimated that 60% of those apprehended are turning themselves in.
It is almost a year since a surge in crossings by unaccompanied Central American children overwhelmed local processing and holding centres and put the Rio Grande Valley at the centre of a humanitarian and political crisis.
Senior security and immigration officials have expressed confidence that this summer will not see a repeat of those scenes: fewer people are attempting to cross the border, a result which officials attribute to a successful campaign in Central America to persuade would-be migrants that even if they reach the US, they will have little prospect of remaining.
A Pew Research Center study published last week suggested that a substantial increase of deportations by Mexican authorities has also had a major effect.