A cardiac arrest frustrated the attempt of a 48-year-old Cuban woman to reach Eagle Pass, in the state of Texas, on Wednesday, after having crossed the Rio Grande. The woman, whose identity is unknown, was unable to achieve her goal of arriving in the United States with the group of 400 migrants with whom she was traveling. as reported by Bill Meluginjournalist for the Fox News network.
According to the American media Breitbart, the Cuban began to experience discomfort after crossing the river and informed the group that she was short of breath. Those who accompanied her assumed that it was an asthma attack, and seeing that it did not improve, they decided to alert the Border Patrol.
She was treated by an EMS paramedic and several members of the Fire Department rescue team, but efforts to stabilize her were unsuccessful. The body was transported to a local funeral home.
This incident occurred just one day after the United States Border Patrol rescued two Cuban women, mother and daughter, who that were trapped in the Rio Bravo, in the Mexican city of Reynosa, south of Texas. The women were abandoned by coyotes.
According to the report of the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), between October 2021 and last September, more than 850 migrants died in their attempt to cross the border from Mexico to the United States. That number, warned the American media, may be below the actual death toll.
At least 800 migrants crossed illegally into the Eagle Pass, TX area within a one hour span this morning, mainly consisting of two enormous groups, both of which we witnessed. One of those groups was escorted by BP agents in a single file line, almost as far as the eye can see. pic.twitter.com/k01NS4cYwn
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) November 3, 2022
The count includes only deceased migrants whose bodies were able to be recovered by Border Patrol agents, but not those found by local authorities outside the border or deceased migrants recovered by authorities in Mexico.
Reporter Bill Melugin also testified to the illegal entry into the United States, in a period of just one hour, of at least 800 migrants in two groups, mainly from Cuba, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. “One of those groups was escorted by Border Patrol agents in single file, almost as far as the eye could see,” he stated.
In the morning, on the way to the border area of Eagle Pass, Melugin found a group of 11 migrants on the edge of the road without knowing where they were going. “There is no Border Patrol on scene as agents are currently responding to two large groups,” she noted on his social media.
If the transit through Eagle Pass is one of the routes most frequented by migrants, the passage through the Normandy area, in Maverick County, is not far behind. Fox News drones captured this Thursday the arrival of “hundreds of migrants” who arrived in the US through that entrance. According to CBP, more than 46,000 illegal crossings have been registered in the Del Río sector since October 1, including more than 1,700 in the last 24 hours.
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