The recent deaths of two people who were recovered alongside GovAbbott’s floating border buoys were misconstrued by the Mexican government in a way that faulted Texas border security measures, according to the governor’s office.
Abbott spokesman Andrew Mahaleris rebuked the Mexico Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday for linking the drowning to a 1,000-foot-long string of buoys in a shallow part of the Rio Grande between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila."The Mexican government is flat-out wrong,” Mahaleris said in a statement. “To be clear, preliminary information points to the drowning occurring before the body was even near the barriers.
Mahaleris added that the Mexican government did acknowledge that the second body was found “miles upstream from the marine barriers.” "The water is between knee and waist level," Olivarez said."There's no way the body would have drowned there. ... There's nothing in the buoy — no objects, no sharp objects, no wire, no hook."
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