Four people, including an infant girl, drowned in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass over the holiday weekend, said TxDPS. The Rio Grande is a notoriously dangerous route for migrants. Last September, nine people drowned while attempting to cross the river.
A row of shipping containers and razor wire placed on the banks of the Rio Grande by Gov. Greg Abbott to form a makeshift border wall in Eagle Pass on Nov. 19, 2021., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
DPS spokesperson Lt. Chris Olivarez wrote on Twitter on Monday that the department’s Tactical Marine Unit and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission deployed two airboats in response to a possible infant drowning. The department’s Tactical Marine Unit recovered the bodies of the infant and a female adult Saturday but found them to be unresponsive.
State officials recovered four people floating in the river, including the two deceased. The two survivors were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol. Neither DPS nor Customs and Border Protection would comment on Tuesday.
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