Abbott says claims Texas allowed migrants to drown in Rio Grande are false
By: Landon Mion (Fox News)
The truth impaired are spewing phony outrage again. If CBP was so concerned about drowning migrants then why aren't they operating boats? Where's the Coast Guard? Isn't this what the Coast Guard is supposed to do? Why aren't lifeguards stationed along the Rio Grande? Why aren't floatation devices available? You'd think life vests could be reused; they're only needed to wade the Rio Grande.
Why is Biden refusing to deploy the resources that would protect and serve these poor migrants trying to enter the country illegally? Are the political points of floating bodies too much for Biden to pass up?
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Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott tells 'Fox News Sunday' that migrants claiming asylum must only enter through legal ports of entry and says the Biden administration must 'end' their catch and release policy.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, said Sunday Democrats' accusations that Texas allowed migrants attempting to cross the southern border into the U.S. to drown in the Rio Grande by preventing Border Patrol from accessing the river are inaccurate.
Federal officials and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, claimed the state was responsible for the deaths of three migrants - a woman and two children - on Friday after purporting that the Texas Military Department had denied Border Patrol access to the area to help six migrants in distress.
"This is a tragedy, and the State bears responsibility," Cuellar said in a statement.
An investigation by the Texas Military Department determined the accusations were "wholly inaccurate," explaining the drownings had already happened by the time Border Patrol requested access.
"At the time that Border Patrol requested access, the drownings had occurred, Mexican Authorities were recovering the bodies, and Border Patrol expressed these facts to the TMD personnel on site," the TMD said in a news release.
Abbott said in response to the investigation's findings that Cuellar and others who blamed Texas for the drownings left out key facts.
"Turns out @RepCuellar (& some media) were so eager to point finger(sic) at Texas for drowning of migrants they forgot to get the facts," Abbott wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "When BP requested access to river the drownings had already occurred & found in MX. The fact is the deaths are b/c of Biden's Open Border magnet."
The TMD said its soldiers were in direct communication with Border Patrol on Friday when it requested access to Shelby Park upon learning of distressed migrants. Soldiers said they told Border Patrol when it requested access that Mexican authorities had already recovered the bodies of two drowned migrants.
Border Patrol specifically requested access to the park to secure two additional migrants who were presumed to have traveled with the ones who had died, but had crossed to the boat ramp, the release said. Two migrants were apprehended by TMD, with one turned over to the Department of Public Safety and the other transferred to EMS for initial hypothermic conditions.
The soldiers continued to use lights, night vision goggles and thermals to ensure no more migrants were in the river or in distress, according to the release.
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Biden is giving money to college graduates because education now contributes to poverty. Too bad that money wasn't spent on reusable flotation devices to safely cross the Rio Grande.
These migrants will pay traffickers thousands of dollars to deliver them to the border but can't afford $20 for an inner tube? Seems like a problem with an easy solution. Too bad there aren't any liberal minded bleeding hearts to crowd fund an Alibaba order.
They came to the edge and tried to cross on their own decision, Should have stayed wherever they were.
Wow, it's a Monday, another Democrat and some media blatantly lying so they won't have to address the failed and disastrous Democratic border policies.
Is anyone surprised?
Thousands of migrants have died while being drawn to the border by Biden's policies. Yet Democrats only decide to publicize the one incident they think, mistakenly, can be exploited for political gain.
The only real surprise is that Biden didn't accuse Texans of drowning the immigrants, kind of how he accused the BP of whipping immigrants.
According to the web site, 10,000 of these would cost $2,500 plus shipping. They're reusable. And even the most backward illegal immigrant could figure out how to use one.
Democrats stick their thumbs up their arses, whine like jilted prostitutes, and refuse to do anything to address the problem. The fix would cost less than Nancy Pelosi's bar tab.