Posted on 03/29/2015 10:07:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A U.S. surveillance helicopter hovering over the Rio Grande spots a body floating near a muddy bank on the Mexican side of the river.
Soon another body turns up, then another. A Mexican investigator arrives and holds up his hand confirming the grim tally: four men and a woman.
The grisly discovery last month is part of a spike in drownings since October. Immigrants, desperate to avoid detection at a time of increased patrols, are choosing more dangerous and remote crossings into South Texas. The Border Patrol has responded by expanding its search-and-rescue teams to monitor the area, particularly weed-choked irrigation canals where many of the bodies are being found.
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Maybe Jeb’s friends in Mexico should start giving swimming lessons.
So it’s our fault that people are drowning in the river. OK, got it.
remember when Obama said that the GOP solution to illegal immigration was a moat at the border, with alligators in the moat? That had to be one of the dumbest things ever said by an American president.
This is the biggest load of rubbish I’ve seen today. An Ass. Press SOB story.
What’s the old joke?
Why didn’t Mexico have an Olympic team?
Because everyone who could run, jump, and or swim was already here.
Ain’t buyin’ the propagands, Seth.
“Maybe Jebs friends in Mexico should start giving swimming lessons.”
If you are a Spanish speaker you can get free swim lessons in Sonoma County, everyone else must pay.
See, thee’s no discrimination.
"...well....after we get jobs for Jihadist, we can teach dog paddling in Mexico"
“Thaaaat’s a shame...”
/Seinfeld voice
“welll” said the sheriff “looks like that boy stole more chains than he could swim with”
Take a big pole and give the guy a nice push back over the border.
Let their fellow Mexicans take care of this.
At least the drownings reduce, however slightly, the burden on the American taxpayer.
I’m surprised that Obama would let anyone in his administration increase enforcement along our southern border — I thought it would be TX Gov. Abbot that started enforcing the immigration laws, & doing so against Obama’s wishes. All’s well that ends well, I reckon.
I just can’t understand why the benevolent government in Mexico doesn’t close that border so that their citizens don’t face these unreasonable dangers. What’s wrong with them, that they tolerate these unnecessary deaths? Where is their humanity?
If the United States enforced their laws like other countries and illegal aliens knew they would be caught and deported they would not even try to cross the river.
More propaganda from The Ministry Of Propaganda to try to make us feel guilty that we want to protect our country and its citizens. Everyone in world is not entitled to come here.
After all, Mexico has closed its border with Guatemala. Unless it’s for travelers bound for the Estados Unidosillegally.
Four very fertile entrepreneurs drowned.
Maybe Jeb’s relatives in Mexico could clean up their country and then people wouldn’t be desperate to leave.
And maybe, just maybe, they weren’t immigrants. Maybe they were smugglers murdered by their “countrymen”.
Find an Old White Guy and blame him.
Cry Me a River. A very deep river.
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