Two Bodies Found in Rio Grande

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The Facts

  • Texas and Mexico officials found two bodies in the Rio Grande on Wednesday, one of them caught in the southern part of the floating border barrier deployed last month by Texas authorities at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott.

  • Preliminary information from the Texas Dept. of Public Safety suggests that the lifeless person lodged against the barrier drowned upstream and floated into the buoys. The other corpse was recovered 3 miles upriver, away from the floating border.

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The Spin

Democratic narrative

This kind of tragedy has been waiting to happen ever since Republican Texas Gov. Abbott launched his cruel border policies based on setting death traps to try to stop asylum seekers from entering the US. The buoy barrier isn't only an ineffective measure but also a grave violation of human rights, so the federal government must take action against it.

Common Dreams

Republican narrative

The Mexican government is outrageously attempting to pin the blame on Texas for a tragedy that's independent of the state's floating border. In reality, drownings in the Rio Grande by people seeking to enter the US illegally are sadly all too common due to Biden and López Obrador recklessly pushing for open-border policies instead of securing the border.

Washington Examiner

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