AUSTIN, Texas — Two dead bodies, presumably immigrants who attempted to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to the United States, were found tangled up in a string of buoys that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's administration had installed in the river.
Texas Department of Public Safety first notified the Mexican consulate in Eagle Pass Wednesday afternoon of a deceased person in the southern part of the 1,000-foot-long line of floating barriers, according to a statement from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) notified the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass that at about 2:35 p.m. they found a lifeless body caught in the southern part of the buoys that were installed in the Rio Grande River," the foreign affairs ministry stated.
Mexican authorities pulled the body from the water.
"So far, the cause of death and nationality of the person is unknown,"the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Wednesday.
A second body was also recovered in the buoys Wednesday, but the person's identity and cause of death had yet to be determined, according to ABC News. The Mexican government did not comment on the second death.
Mexico's foreign affairs ministry said the barriers, installed in July, were a "violation of our sovereignty."
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"We express our concern about the impact on the human rights and personal safety of migrants that these state policies will have, which go in the opposite direction to the close collaboration between our country and the federal government of the United States," the ministry said in a statement. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will continue to follow up on the case promptly through the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, maintaining contact with the corresponding authorities in Mexico and the United States to obtain more information on what happened and to request that the necessary investigations be carried out."
The governor's office and DPS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.