A father drowns in front of his son on the border to the US along Río Bravo

The images, we warn, are very harsh and show the harshness of the situation that continues to be experienced in the border crossing of Mexico a USA through Bravo River, where several people have recently died trying to cross. Among them was a father who was drowning due to the inconsolable crying of his son, who managed to save himself after witnessing everything.

The heartbreaking sequence shows the moments in which the deceased fights with two other people to stay afloat and get out of the water, trapped in the mud, desperate. While screams of terror are heard from the shore, only one of the three managed to survive in the umpteenth tragedy in the area, where recently it was a mother who was begging, with her four-year-old son in her arms, for the border troops to help her when she saw how their strength was exhausted in the middle of the river.

She managed to save herself, but many continue to perish in the place while in the american border with measures are tightened.

The dramatic crossing of migrants in Río Bravo towards the United States

He migrant crossing from Mexico to the United States continues, despite everything, unstoppable. More of 10,000 a day They have been trying for the past few weeks. Most do it through Texaswhere the governor, in addition to reinforce the border con concertinassigned this week one of the toughest anti-immigration laws of American history.

Specifically, the latter allows arrest migrants y put them in jail if they do not accept to return to Mexico.

Despite this, these measures do not seem to deter the thousands of migrants who continue trying. 40% are families and unaccompanied minors. Many of them do not succeed, either because they are returned or because they die trying, as happened to two of the three men who appear in the sequence of this video, a Haitian and a Venezuelan, the latter the father of the child who He witnessed the terrible event.

More than half a million people have tried to reach the southern border of the United States

Their cases are not isolated. According to the United Nations this year more than half a million people have tried to reach to the southern border of the United States, double that of last year.

In this situation, President Joe Biden has asked his Mexican counterpart to put a stop to this increase in the migratory flow, while from within the United States Border System they warn that the border is about to break.

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2023-12-23 14:07:13
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