The Mexican government found a second death in the Rio Grande, which it shares with the United States, due to the buoys and wire fence installed by the state of Texas (USA) to prevent the passage of migrants.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the National Institute of Migration (INM) reported the discovery in a statement early Thursday morning, just hours after finding another body in Piedras Negras, a border city with the US town 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, the bulletin added.
The Mexican government has 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 Texas Governor, Republican Greg Abbott, has placed in the Rio Grande to stop to migrants.
The obstructions of Texas are in a section of 305 meters in the Eagle Pass area, of which 230 meters correspond to Mexico, as denounced by the SRE, which has sent two diplomatic complaints to Washington in this regard.
In addition, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has called the new anti-immigrant barriers in Texas “advertising” and “very vulgar”, for which he has asked not to vote for Abbott.
“Mexico reiterates that the installation of said wall of buoys and wire fences 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 have maintained. United States and Mexico”, concluded the statement from the SRE and the INM.
