Thread: Migrant Infant, 3 Adults Drowned While Crossing Border River into Texas

Migrant Infant, 3 Adults Drowned While Crossing Border River into Texas



by BOB PRICE 4 Jul 2023

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers recovered the bodies of four migrants from the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. The drowning victims included an infant who was carried into the border river. The drownings occurred in three separate incidents over a 48-hour period.

Texas DPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez tweeted a report regarding the drowning deaths of four migrants during a 48-hour timespan over the Independence Day weekend.



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In the past 48 hours, the @TxDPS Tactical Marine Unit (TMU) recovered 4 deceased bodies including an infant from the Rio Grande River in #EaglePass.

7/1/23 - #USBP requested assistance regarding a possible infant drowning. TMU Operators & @MyFWC deployed 2 airboats & observed…Show more



4:59 PM · Jul 3, 2023

Texas Marine Unit teams patrolling the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass under Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star recovered four drowning victims on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents requested assistance from DPS Tactical Marine Unit (TMU) teams regarding the possible drowning of an infant-age migrant. Olivarez reported the troopers, along with Florida Fish and Wildlife wardens observed “multiple bodies floating along the river.”

The TMU operators pulled the four migrants from the river and observed a woman and a female infant to be unresponsive. The team immediately began CPR to attempt to save the two migrants’ lives.

The operators transferred the victims to EMS teams who transported them to the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center. Doctors pronounced the woman and the baby girl to be deceased.

The operators turned the two surviving migrants over to Eagle Pass Station Border Patrol agents for processing, Olivarez stated.

On Sunday, TMU operators recovered the body of another drowned male migrant. A fourth drowning victim, a female migrant, was also recovered on Monday, the report concludes.

Olivarez said none of the deceased migrants had identification documents.

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Four people, including infant, die trying to cross Rio Grande into Texas

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Nick Robertson
Tue, July 4, 2023 at 6:09 PM EDT



Four people, including an infant, have drowned in the Rio Grande on the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas since Saturday, Texas Department of Public Safety officials said Monday.

The baby girl and a woman were pulled from the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, along with two other people Saturday. The infant and woman died, while the other two survived, according to Lt. Chris Olivarez, spokesperson for the department.

Two other men were found drowned in the same section of river, one each Sunday and Monday.

The identities of the four drowned people are unknown because none of them carried identifying documents, according to Olivarez, who tweeted out the details.

The drownings come just days before the state of Texas plans to place floating buoys in the section of the river near Eagle Pass.

The buoys, announced last month, are intended to make it impossible to swim across the river from Mexico to the U.S., discouraging people from crossing the border illegally.

Eagle Pass is the first section — called “the center of gravity for smuggling” by Texas DPS Chief Steven McCraw — of the river to receive buoys.

“This strategy will proactively prevent illegal crossings between ports of entry by making it more difficult to cross the Rio Grande and reach the Texas side of the southern border,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office said in a statement last month.
Last fall, nine people drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande in the same Eagle Pass section of river.

The buoy strategy is the latest in Abbott’s attempts to stop undocumented immigrants from coming to Texas, which he has called a “crisis.”

On Saturday, Abbott sent a second busload of migrants from Texas to Los Angeles, part of a program that buses migrants to so-called “sanctuary cities,” places where undocumented immigrants have additional protections. The program has been widely criticized by Democrats and advocates for migrants.


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