translated from Spanish: They rescue family of Hondurans in Rio Bravo

TEXAS, EU (agency reform).-in the middle of an unusual increase in border, with helicopter surveillance, dozens of patrols and boats, a family of Hondurans, including two children, tried to cross the river Br. o, and was on the verge of drowning near Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass International Bridge 2.

the patrol border reported that close to 8:00 o’clock on Friday, agents that perform operations water on a boat observed five people who tried to cross swimming the Rio Grande near the International Bridge 2.

the group consisted of three adults and two children. Adults were struggling against the current, while trying to take the children

“one of the women nearly was dragged by the current while it held one of the children. The agents assigned to a boat, the Trauma and rescue unit, responded and rescued the group.”

Hondurans were brought by boat to the shore, where they were evaluated by paramedics from the border patrol and then taken to the station of customs and border protection in Eagle Pass, where processed them for immigration violations.

five days ago to Piedras Negras came a group of one thousand 800 centroamericanos, Honduran migrants were mostly those contained in two wineries in a maquiladora, where they have control over them and can not roam freely.

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the Diocese of stones black points out that on the homes of migrants are more than 150 Central American, in addition to daily arrive in this border migrants individually by different means.

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