1 Child Dead, 3 People Missing After Migrant Raft Overturns In Rio Grande
Source: NPR
May 2, 20197:11 PM ET
U.S. Border Patrol cars are seen from the bridge connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, with Piedras Negras, Mexico, near the banks
of the Rio Grande in February.
Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters
U.S. border authorities have recovered the body of a 10-month-old child and continue searching for two other children and an adult whose raft overturned in the Rio Grande as they were attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday night near Del Rio, Texas, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"What we're dealing with now is senseless tragedy," said Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Raul L. Ortiz in a statement released Thursday. "The men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol have been doing everything in their power to prevent incidents like this. And yet, callous smugglers continue to imperil the lives of migrants for financial gain."
Border agents on patrol encountered a 27-year-old Honduran male who reported that he was one of nine people on a rubber raft that had overturned in what was described as cold and fast-flowing waters. The man said that his wife, two sons who were 10 months old and 6 years old, and a 7-year-old nephew were swept away. Two other families were also on the raft, a CBP official told NPR.
A border agent later found the wife and 6-year-old son of the man who made the initial report. The boy was rushed to a local hospital.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/719797605/1-child-dead-3-people-missing-after-migrant-raft-overturns-in-rio-grande?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
yaesu
(8,020 posts)country helped create with over a hundred years of intervention in Latin America.
https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)People really SHOULD have an actual understanding of what has been happening all these long years, especially those racists who want to raise hell about the people fleeing for their lives from the hell created by so much total hell created in their own countries by people who have been ruthlessly robbing and murdering them when they protest, and getting by with it, since they own their governments.
Thank you, so much.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)self-taught education on U.S. interventions during the Bush years, but now it seems necessary to take a refresher course. The big picture has disappeared, being taken up by little bits and pieces of information forgotten from one day to the next.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)The US Government is breaking the law in refusing to process asylum seekers at legal points of entry.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)To have this bogus crisis given so much attention when sane people are aware illegal immigration has been plummeting for years, to claim extreme measures are needed, when they aren't is a crime against humanity.
The people seeking shelter are being driven by inhumane conditions at both ends of their frantic trip to escape the deadly threat. Surely wish just one of the pampered fools like Trump could have a moment's awareness of what it is when someone has nowhere to hide or to rest.
So damned sad.