The FBI is investigating the deaths of what appeared to be a 20-year-old migrant woman, an infant and two toddlers.
. The influx has overwhelmed Border Patrol agents, whose leaders have said they are stretched thin. In addition, providing shelter for the increased number of migrants has reached a tipping point. In some cases, there are 15,000 migrants housed in spaces designed for 4,000. The Trump administration has been erecting massive emergency tent shelters. The crunch is particularly tough in south Texas, the busiest crossings for migrant families, especially the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso.
Tania Vanessa Ávalos, 21, told Mexican authorities that she had been trying to cross the river with her husband, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, 25, and daughter Valeria Martínez Ávalos, when the current swept them away and she was saved by a relative, reported the Mexican daily El Imparcial. A Border Patrol spokesman said they had received reports of the deaths but could not confirm them.
“They were waiting at the bridge,” Benavides said. “I just can’t wrap my head around someone that young and fit being unable to make it.”
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