MADRID, Spain.- A Cuban migrant died this Wednesday while trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to Texas. According to reported the middle american BreitbartHe went into cardiac arrest after an asthma attack.
According to the information, the woman was traveling with a group of more than 400 migrants who surrendered to the authorities south of Eagle Pass. The migrants notified the immigration authorities of the medical emergency of the Cuban, who was on the banks of the river.
A migrant woman from Cuba died while crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas on Wednesday morning. The woman appears to have suffered cardiac arrest following an asthma attack while crossing the border river. https://t.co/h31wDDAfwM
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 2, 2022
“Border Patrol agents called an Emergency Medical Technician and EMS from the local Fire Department. Efforts to save the woman were unsuccessful.”
Sources consulted by Breitbart They said that the body of the Cuban woman, who has not been identified so far, was taken to a local funeral home.
The crossing of the Rio Grande into the United States has been declared by the United Nations (UN) as one of the most dangerous land borders in the world.
Last May, 25-year-old Juan Miguel Matamoros Cagides from Pinar del Río died trying to cross the Rio Grande through the Piedras Negras region in Coahuila. According to the information, the river was very high and stirred by the abundant rains of the previous days.
This Tuesday, United States Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector, rescued two Cuban migrants who had been abandoned in the middle of the Rio Grande by traffickers.
In April of this year it transpired that in a single day more than 300 Cuban migrants had crossed the Rio Grande.
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