{"id":1453089,"date":"2022-04-25T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453089"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:30:53","slug":"national-guardsman-who-risked-life-to-save-illegal-immigrants-confirmed-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-guardsman-who-risked-life-to-save-illegal-immigrants-confirmed-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guardsman Who Risked Life To Save Illegal Immigrants Confirmed Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnational-guardsman-who-risked-life-to-save-illegal-immigrants-confirmed-dead%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453089&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The body of a Texas National Guard soldier who went missing last week after trying to save drowning migrants was recovered Monday, Governor Greg Abbott (R.) announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are heartbroken to learn of the death of SPC Bishop E. Evans who was reported missing in Eagle Pass on Friday,&#8221; Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1518636250172907520?s=20&#038;t=NShkFVhvaNIV753OT0Jk-Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement. &#8220;Our National Guard soldiers risk their lives every day to serve and protect others and we are eternally grateful for the way SPC Evans heroically served his state and country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evans on Friday went missing along the Rio Grande after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-national-guard-releases-pictures-of-soldier-presumed-dead-after-attempting-to-save-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entered<\/a> the river to save two illegal immigrants who &#8220;appeared to be drowning.&#8221; While the migrants survived, Evans presumably drowned. The Texas Military Department told Fox News that the migrants &#8220;were involved in illicit transnational narcotics trafficking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House has not yet commented on the Friday incident. In September 2021, when media outlets falsely reported that Border Patrol agents on horseback whipped Haitian migrants, the White House within a day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-homeland-security-chief-heads-border-removal-migrant-camp-accelerates-2021-09-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued<\/a> a condemnation of the agents&#8217; conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Evans was stationed at the border as part of Abbott&#8217;s deployment of National Guard troops to address the surge of illegal migrant crossings under the Biden administration. In 2021, Customs and Border Protection <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/migrant-surge-may-push-dhs-to-drop-security-standards-so-it-can-staff-up\/\">saw<\/a> a record 1.6 million migrant apprehensions, a number that&#8217;s expected to rise to 2.3 million this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a Texas National Guard soldier who went missing last week after trying to save drowning migrants was recovered Monday, Governor Greg Abbott (R.) announced. &#8220;We are heartbroken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}