Body of dead boy found on one of Gov Abbott's immigrant blocking buoys. https://t.co/35ljhApufO
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 3, 2023
A child from Honduras was one of two people found dead on or near the buoy barrier Texas installed in the Rio Grande to deter migrants, Mexican officials said Thursday, a growing toll that critics blamed on Gov. Greg Abbott’s “barbaric” border security tactics.
“No good person would do this,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily news conference. “This is inhumane and no person should be treated like this.”
But:
But Mahaleris, the governor’s spokesman, noted that four migrants drowned in the river in early July, before the barriers were installed.
The deaths, he asserted, stem from “the reckless open border policies of President Biden and President López Obrador. In fact, before Texas deployed barriers, the United Nations declared the U.S.-Mexico border the deadliest land crossing in the world. If President Biden and President López Obrador truly cared about human life, they would do their jobs and secure the border.”
DPS director Steve McCraw said the victim found stuck to the buoys was already dead when he got there.
“Preliminary information suggests this individual drowned upstream from the marine barrier and floated into the buoys,” he said in a statement. “There are personnel posted at the marine barrier at all times in case any migrants try to cross.”
Which conflicts with the idea the bodies had been in the river for weeks.
On Wednesday, Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Alicia Bárcena said the Texas DPS had alerted the consulate in Eagle Pass that a dead person was found stuck to the nearby barrier.
DPS spokesman Travis Considine echoed that version of events, saying Thursday the agency received a report “of a possible drowning victim floating upstream from the marine barrier. DPS then notified U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Mexican Consulate. Later that day a body was discovered at the marine barrier.”
Not sure what the truth is, but I'm not buying the Texas version. And yes, those buoys are barbaric.
The barriers comprise buoys 4-feet in diameter, strung together in lengths of 1,000 feet. They are not wrapped in razor wire as early reports indicated, but there are sharp metal strips between each one, ensuring cuts for anyone who might try to climb through the narrow gap.
.@GovAbbott's illegal, barbaric, and inhumane border policies does not reflect our Texan values.
— Rep. Sylvia Garcia (@RepSylviaGarcia) August 3, 2023
He must put a stop to this before more lives are lost!
Read my statement below ⬇ pic.twitter.com/wdurbsAQhx
This is a dark day for Texas, my native state, and I am deeply ashamed as a Texan.
A man walks into a bar,
Sitting on the bar is an old antique looking oil lamp, "What's this?" the man queries the barkeep.
"I dunno," says the bar man, "1 think the. last customer may have left it."
The man turns the lamp, looking at it, and notices a couple of spots. He polishes it with his shirt sleeve and then....
Poof! Smoke emits from ihe lamp and a genie appears.
Like all genies, he uses the opening line of: "I will grant you three wishes,"
"After recovering from his surprise the man thinks, for a second and then says, "Turn Greg Abbott into a pregnant woman confined to a small house with no power or A/C or working fridge due to our Texas power grid failing on a 104 degree day."
A wry smile crosses the genie's face, and he says, "this one is on me!""
We'll have to change that to "migrant child crossing the Rio Grande."
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