Disturbing video captures migrants drowning in Rio Grande
A tragic video appears to show young migrants drowning in the Rio Grande, a deadly turn in the escalating border crisis.The footage, captured by fisherman Jesus Vargas, shows three people in the water near the border town of Laredo, Texas, with only their heads bobbing above the surface.
"You don’t have life jackets, nothing? They’re drowning, these guys!" Vargas is heard shouting at US Border Patrol agents standing on the shoreline nearby.
"That girl didn’t come out no more!" Vargas yells of one apparent victim.
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The conditions from which they're fleeing must be beyond comprehension ...
Right.
Fleeing Cuba across nearly 100 miles of Florida Current/Gulf Stream.
Back in the day - USCG aircrew who spotted a boat of Cuban refugees had orders to NOT deviate from their flight path.
If Cuban radar observed the plane circling, it was a death warrant for refugees in the boat below - MiGs would soon appear & strafe boat & refugees to the bottom.
If the water could be removed from the Straits Of Florida, I imagine one could walk from Cuba to Key West on the bones of refugees. ...
Two months into his administration -
Ol' Joe has a humanitarian crisis & he's burned a Lotta political capital on the border.