Four people, including a baby, drowned crossing Rio Grande River into Texas

The people drowned in the border city of Eagle Pass

Abe Asher
14 hours ago

A baby was among the four people who drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande into the United States over the holiday weekend, law enforcement authorities said.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the department’s tactical marine unit recovered a group of four people from the river on Saturday, including woman and a baby girl who were unresponsive to medical interventions and were pronounced dead at a hospital. The other two people were turned over to the custody of the US Border Patrol.

US law enforcement also found the body of a man in the river on Sunday and the body of a woman in the river on Monday. The identities of the four people who died are not yet known; they were not travelling with identification documents.

Crossing the US-Mexico border has become an increasingly dangerous venture for migrants as the US has increasingly militarised its border over the last several decades. In 2022, nearly 900 people died crossing the border. The bodies of the four people found dead over the weekend were reportedly recovered in the same region where nine migrants died while attempting to cross the river in September of last year.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rio-grande-drowning-texas-migrants-b2370810.html