Three children, one woman found dead in Texas near Rio Grande border

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Tim Elfrink June 24 at 4:10 AM

U.S. Border Patrol agents on Sunday found four bodies near the Rio Grande in southern Texas, including three small children. The dead included one toddler, two infants and an approximately 20-year-old woman, Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra posted in a late-night tweet.

The woman and children were found in an area notorious for illegal border crossings and drug trafficking, authorities said. Their cause of death is still under investigation, as are their identities.

“It is an area very well known for immigrants crossing the river,” Sgt. Frank Medrano, a spokesman for the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, told The Washington Post.

The bodies were found in the Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area southeast of Anzalduas Park, a 96-acre green space dotted with Spanish moss-draped trees and picnic tables along the river in Mission, Tex.

Link to tweet

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/24/andalzuas-park-rio-grande-four-bodies-one-woman-three-children/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ee26ce144fbf

[Bayard]

1. "cause of death is still under investigation"

Does anyone think that will actually happen, or will they just add 4 more bodies to the anonymous body count?

[kimbutgar]

2. What do you bet their deaths were a result of those rouge oath keepers who are playing border

Agents?

[Traildogbob]

3. My thought exacly

Kids and women. As Jesus would do.

[Igel]

4. People have been dying down there, crossing the border, for decades.

There was an uptick in such deaths when fences were put up in most built up areas or close to larger border crossings. The fencing forced people to either to through the designated border crossing or to venture further out, often into desert or rugged terrain.

(It also forced smugglers to make the same choice, by the way. The areas near where the fences end tend to be higher traffic and higher in trafficking, which often produces a bad outcome.)