Texas National Guard members physically blocked members of the US Border Patrol who wanted to help a family struggling to cross the Rio Grande River on Friday, resulting in the death of a woman and two children believed to be her offspring, the CBS News reports.
Republican Texas Governor and sadist Greg Abbott ordered state Guard to remove federal officials from a park in Eagle Pass where the Border Patrol had created a staging area to process migrants coming across the border. Border Patrol agents learned that six migrants were in medical distress at the site and tried to gain access, but were blocked. Calls to local authorities went unanswered. Later, Mexican authorities recovered the bodies of the woman and two children on their side of the Rio Grande Saturday morning. The status of the other three individuals is unknown.
“Texas Military Department soldiers stated they would not grant (Border Patrol) access to the migrants – even in the event of an emergency – and that they would send a soldier to investigate the situation,” Democratic Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar said in the statement on social media. “This is a tragedy, and the state bears responsibility.”