NBC News is reporting that an illegal and her two children died as they tried to cross the Rio Grande on Friday after Border Patrol were prevented from helping by the Texas National Guard.

But the Texas Military Department is disputing this narrative, saying they could find no illegals in distress.

Here’s more from NBC News:

A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday night in Eagle Pass, Texas, after U.S. border agents were prevented from responding, federal officials said Saturday.

In a statement, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said U.S. Border Patrol agents were made aware of the migrants’ distress by the Mexican government but were unable to enter the area from the U.S. side after Texas National Guard troops, under the direction of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, prevented them from doing so.

“In responding to a distress call from the Mexican government, Border Patrol agents were physically barred by Texas officials from entering the area,” the spokesperson said.

The deaths were highlighted Saturday by U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, who said the deceased were part of a group of six migrants in the river Friday night who were in distress.

Mexican authorities recovered the bodies of three of the migrants Saturday, Cuellar said in a statement. Identities and exact ages were unavailable.

“Border Patrol attempted to contact the Texas Military Department, the Texas National Guard, and DPS Command Post by telephone to relay the information, but were unsuccessful,” Cuellar said in the statement.

He continued: “Border Patrol agents then made physical contact with the Texas Military Department and the Texas National Guard at the Shelby Park Entrance Gate and verbally relayed the information. However, Texas Military Department soldiers stated they would not grant access to the migrants — even in the event of an emergency — and that they would send a soldier to investigate the situation.”

“Texas Military Department disputed that narrative, saying its personnel were made aware of a distress report but could find no migrants needing help in the river…”

In its own statement, the Texas Military Department disputed that narrative, saying its personnel were made aware of a distress report but could find no migrants needing help in the river and later were made aware of an incident nearby, on the Mexican side of the river, that did not require their help.

The department said it had been in touch with Border Patrol on Friday night, and the agency said Mexican authorities did not need the Texas department’s help.

“At no time did TMD security personnel along the river observe any distressed migrants, nor did TMD turn back any illegal immigrants from the US during this period,” it said.

I wasn’t there so I don’t know exactly what happened. But what I do know is that these illegals were crossing the Rio Grande because Biden has been telling them to come. They wouldn’t have been in the river in the first place but for Biden’s open border and the fact that they died is more on his hands than on that of anyone else.