{"id":1990678,"date":"2023-08-04T08:57:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-links-texas-border-buoys-to-migrant-deaths-abbott-says-thats-flat-out-wrong\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T08:59:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:59:37","slug":"mexico-links-texas-border-buoys-to-migrant-deaths-abbott-says-thats-flat-out-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-links-texas-border-buoys-to-migrant-deaths-abbott-says-thats-flat-out-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico blames Texas border buoys for migrant deaths, Abbott denies responsibility."},"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%2Fmexico-links-texas-border-buoys-to-migrant-deaths-abbott-says-thats-flat-out-wrong%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=1990678&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--><h2>Texas Governor Rejects Mexican\u200b Government&#8217;s\u2063 Claims About Migrant\u200d Deaths<\/h2>\n<p>Texas Republican Governor Gregg Abbott has dismissed allegations from the Mexican government that blamed the deaths of migrants\u2064 on\u2064 a \u2062buoy barrier installed by his state in the Rio Grande.<\/p>\n<p>On\u200c Wednesday, \u200ctwo bodies, believed to be of migrants attempting to illegally \u2063cross the U.S.-Mexico border,\u200d were found. One of the bodies was recovered near the buoys in the river, which are \u200dpart of Abbott&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-links-texas-border-buoys-to-migrant-deaths-abbott-says-thats-flat-out-wrong\/\" title=\"Mexico blames Texas border buoys for migrant deaths, Abbott denies responsibility.\">newly installed\u200c border barrier<\/a>. The Mexican\u2062 government was the first to report \u200dthe incident and linked the deaths\u2062 to the buoys, but Abbott&#8217;s office refuted this explanation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Mexican government is flat-out \u2062wrong,&#8221; said Abbott&#8217;s spokesman\u2064 Andrew Mahaleris,\u2064 according to the Washington Examiner. &#8220;To \u2064be clear, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gunmen-dump-16-bodies-in-central-mexican-state\/\" title=\"Gunmen Dump 16 bodies in Central Mexican State\">preliminary information points<\/a>\u2064 to the\u200c drowning\u200d occurring before\u200c the body was even near \u2063the barriers. The Texas Department of\u200d Public \u2062Safety\u200c previously reported to Border Patrol the dead\u2063 body \u200cfloating upstream from the barriers in the Rio Grande.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it was informed by the\u2063 Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) \u2062about a &#8220;lifeless body\u200c caught in the southern\u2064 part of the buoys.&#8221; \u200dHowever, Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez\u2063 clarified that the river&#8217;s\u200d stream moved the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-bidens-policies-contradict-moral-law-says-ariz-priest\/\" title=\"\u2018Catholic\u2019 Biden\u2019s policies contradict moral law, says Ariz. priest\">dead body<\/a> \u2064&#8221;down into \u2064the buoy,&#8221; emphasizing that the \u200cbuoy\u2063 did \u200dnot \u2063cause the death. Olivarez \u2064explained that the \u200b1,000-foot stretch of buoys is located in a shallow area where it\u2064 is\u2064 easy to walk\u2064 across\u200b the \u200criver.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The water is between knee and waist level,&#8221;\u200c Olivarez said. &#8220;There&#8217;s no way the body would have drowned there. &#8230; There&#8217;s nothing in the\u200d buoy \u2014 no objects, \u200bno sharp objects, no wire, no hook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Olivarez \u2062also mentioned that \u2064Mexico acknowledged the second recovered body was found \u2063&#8221;miles\u2063 upstream from the marine barriers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mexico has\u2063 claimed that Abbott&#8217;s barrier in the river is \u200ca &#8220;violation of \u2064our\u2062 sovereignty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We express our\u2064 concern \u2063about the impact on the\u200d human rights and personal safety of immigrants that \u200cthese state policies will have, \u200dwhich \u200cgo in the\u2062 opposite\u2062 direction to \u2064the\u2064 close collaboration between\u200d our\u200d country and the federal government of the United States,&#8221; the \u2064Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1690455510071000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0zc8zwWGoXeRzcNJLiJVWI\">CLICK HERE TO \u2062GET THE\u200d DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. \u200bgovernment has also \u200dtargeted Abbott \u200dfor installing the buoys, filing a lawsuit against Texas last month.\u2063 The Department of Justice argues\u2064 that it was unlawful for Texas \u2062to erect the barriers and cites humanitarian concerns.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-threatens-to-sue-texas-over-barriers-on-rio-grande-blocking-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"Biden administration may take legal action against Texas for barriers impeding illegal immigration on Rio Grande.\">floating barrier poses<\/a> a risk to navigation, as well as public \u2062safety, in the Rio Grande River, and it presents humanitarian\u2063 concerns,&#8221; a warning letter from the\u200d department stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The DOJ lawsuit claims that Texas\u2063 is\u2062 violating the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation \u200dAct of \u200b1899, a law that prohibits the &#8220;creation of \u200dany obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress,\u200b to the\u200b navigable capacity\u2062 of \u200dany of the\u2063 waters of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abbott&#8217;s office\u2062 argues that migrant drownings occur too frequently, partly due to the border policies of the Biden \u200dadministration.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If President Biden \u200cand [Mexican] President Lopez Obrador truly cared about human life, they would do their jobs and \u2063secure the border,&#8221; \u2062Mahaleris said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this\u2064 report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Gregg Abbott dismissed allegations from the Mexican government that blamed the deaths of migrants on a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande. 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