![]() ![]() ![]() Hundreds more have perished from extreme heat in remote borderlands, or in the backs of tractor-trailers. More than 800 migrants have died border-wide in the fiscal year that ends this week, according to internal government figures shared by a senior Border Patrol official.ĭrownings are part of the reason why. This has been the deadliest year ever for migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. "It's basically a drowning a day that you're seeing," Mello says. ![]() Mello says the department used to get one or two calls a month. The fire department helps recover the bodies of migrants who drowned trying to cross. It is very deceptive, very dangerous," says Manuel Mello, the fire chief in Eagle Pass, a small city in South Texas that's become one of the busiest crossing spots on the entire border. "It seems like it's a slow moving river, but it's fairly swift. On the other side, it has a different name: El Río Bravo, "the angry river" or "the fierce river." The river that divides Texas and Mexico is known on the U.S. ![]()
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