The Mexican government found the bodies of two people in the Rio Grandewhich it shares with the United States, by the buoys and wire fence installed by Texas to prevent the passage of migrants.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the National Institute of Migration (INM) iThey reported the discovery of a body in a statement early Thursday morning, just hours after finding another body in Piedras Negrasborder city with the US city of Eagle Pass, Texas.
In “a separate event” from the first deceased, “a second body was found upstream by the Beta Piedras Negras Group, approximately five kilometers apart,” they specified. So far, the two deceased people remain unidentified.
Mexico against the wall of barbed wire buoys
The Mexican government has already raised its claims against the United States for accusing Texas of violating bilateral water and human rights treaties with the buoys and wire fence that the governor, Republican Greg Abbott, has placed in the Rio Grande to stop migrants.
Texas obstructions are in a stretch of 305 meters in the Eagle Pass area, of which 230 meters correspond to Mexicoaccording to the SRE, which has sent two diplomatic complaints to Washington in this regard.
Besides, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called them “advertising” and “very vulgar” Texas’ new anti-immigrant barriers, so he asked not to vote for Abbott.
“Mexico reiterates that the installation of said wall of wired buoys violates our sovereignty and has an impact on the security, integrity, and human rights of migrants, and that it is an action that does not correspond to the close relationship that the governments of the United States and Mexico have maintained,” concluded the statement from the SRE and the INM.
In United States, the Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit to prevent the Texas government from putting up additional barriers and removing existing ones.
