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The Department of Homeland Security is claiming that Texas authorities allowed a woman and two children to drown while trying to cross the Rio Grand River. DHS says that Border Patrol agents were prevented from gaining access to Shelby Park, where Mexican authorities say they observed three migrants “in distress.”
“Tragically, a woman and two children drowned last night in the Shelby Park area of Eagle Pass, which was commandeered by the State of Texas earlier this week,’ a DHS spokesperson said in a statement.
The Justice Department is suing Texas after the state denied the Border Patrol access to the area around the Eagle Pass border crossing. Some of the most recent attempts by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to slow the flow of illegals crossing into Texas were to authorize Texas law enforcement to arrest illegals at the border and to order the state to take over the 50-acre Shelby Park and fence it off.
The White House couldn’t pass up an opportunity to portray Abbott as “cruel” and “inhumane.”
“On Friday night, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked U.
