KATZ: For now, the state of Texas continues to block access to this 2.5-mile stretch of border to everyone, including the Border Patrol.įor NPR News, I'm Dan Katz in San Antonio.Ĭopyright © 2024 NPR. Congressman Castro is among Texas Democrats urging the president to take action.ĬASTRO: I think that at this point, the president has no choice but to consider federalizing the Texas National Guard. The White House said it's still gathering facts about the tragic deaths, but it should not have been Abbott's agents conducting the search or blocking federal access. The bodies of the women and two children were later recovered by Mexican authorities. KATZ: The agency that oversees the state's National Guard says it performed its own search and observed no migrants but did not expressly deny that it blocked Border Patrol from entering the area. HENRY CUELLAR: The Texas military said that they could not grant access even in emergency situations. After unsuccessful phone calls to Texas officials, they drove over to Shelby Park, according to Congressman Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat. Hours later, Border Patrol agents nearby learned that a group of migrants were in distress. KATZ: On Friday, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to intervene to allow Border Patrol to regain access to the area. You know, that's "Lord Of The Flies" stuff. KATZ: That's Congressman Joaquin Castro, a San Antonio Democrat.ĬASTRO: Intentionally keeping people from saving a drowning mother with her kids - that's bloodthirsty. JOAQUIN CASTRO: His rhetoric has gotten bloodthirsty and chilly. GREG ABBOTT: The only thing that we're not doing is we're not shooting people who come across the border because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder. Nonetheless, Abbott said in an interview with right-wing talk show host Dana Loesch that the state is doing everything it can to stop people from crossing. Eagle Pass experienced a rise in migration at the end of the year, but that has since subsided considerably. KATZ: City officials say they were told the state was taking control to stop undocumented migrants from crossing into the city. Resident Amerika Garcia Grewal says she was shocked when she found National Guard Humvees blocking the entrances to the park and its main gate completely shuttered.ĪMERIKA GARCIA GREWAL: In the entire time that I have lived here, I have never seen it shut. The city is at the center of Abbott's controversial Operation Lone Star border security program, which uses Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Texas National Guard soldiers to deter migration. KATZ: That's Eagle Pass Mayor Rolando Salinas. This is not something that we asked for as a city. ROLANDO SALINAS: That is not a decision that we agreed to. But last Wednesday, Governor Greg Abbott seized that authority when he took control of a public park in Eagle Pass, a heavily crossed section of the Rio Grande. From San Antonio, Texas Public Radio's Dan Katz reports.ĭAN KATZ, BYLINE: Arresting migrants who cross illegally and providing humanitarian relief is the job of the U.S. The incident has renewed the Biden administration's condemnation of Governor Greg Abbott's border security initiatives. Border protection officials say the state of Texas blocked them from conducting a rescue operation. © 2024 NYP Holdings, Inc.A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday night as they were attempting to cross the U.S. Then, draped in the bedazzled halter dress and matching G-string undies, the buxom bride bends over and wiggles her rear in her new hubby’s face while her bridal party busts a repetition of sultry moves to Beyoncé’s sexy single “Dance for You.” In the eye-popping, now-viral video, which had amassed more than 2.9 million views on Twitter as of Tuesday afternoon, a barefoot Rochelle is seen pushing a little boy out of her way as she struts over to her grinning groom, who’s seated in the middle of a dance floor. “Is that the bride?!?!?,” tweeted a stunned online onlooker who reposted the NSFW clip of the newlywed, known digitally as Rochelle, shaking her rump in a choreographed burlesque alongside her bridesmaids. Twerking the night away in celebration of her nuptials, a Florida bride is going viral for wearing a completely backless dress, apron style, with only a matching shimmery thong covering her, and gifting her groom with a sexy lap dance in front of guests at their wedding reception. While most brides throw a bouquet on their wedding day, this bride was ready to throw her boo-tay. Wild video shows brave 12-year-old swing huge snake ‘like a hammer thrower’ to save her pet guinea pig Gen Z, millennials are becoming homeowners - thanks to $30K tiny homes on Amazon I’m a relationship expert - here’s why ‘looking expensive’ makes dating harder for women ‘Worst thing I’ve ever seen’: Insane video of spiders horrifies TikTok
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