Mexico blames migrant deaths on Texas buoys: Abbott says that's "Flat-out wrong"

In an attempt to eliminate US border barriers to keep illegal aliens out of the country, the Mexican government has blamed the deaths of two illegal aliens on the floating buoy installed in the Rio Grande. Gosh, it's almost as if Mexican officials are getting paid off by the cartels to make their job smuggling people into the United States easier.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) scoffed at the claim.

On Wednesday, two corpses were found near buoys in the river that are part of the buoy installment and the Mexican government was on the case before anyone else discovered this tragedy. Mexico informed the public about the incident and linked the deaths to the floating buoys. 

Gee, when you come to think of it, wouldn't buoys help people who were drowning rather than cause them to drown?

Anyway, Abbott's office called the finger-pointing balderdash, fully rejecting the claim.

“The Mexican government is flat-out wrong,” Abbott’s spokesman Andrew Mahaleris said, according to the Washington Examiner. 

“To be clear, preliminary information points to the drowning occurring before the body was even near the barriers. The Texas Department of Public Safety previously reported to Border Patrol the dead body floating upstream from the barriers in the Rio Grande.”

Is it possible a card carrying cartel tour guide stuck the bodies by the buoys to create a scene supporting Mexico's theory? But that would be dishonest.

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it was notified by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) about a “lifeless body caught in the southern part of the buoys.” Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez, however, said the river’s stream moved the dead body “down into the buoy,” explaining that the buoy did not lead to the death, the Examiner reported. The 1,000-foot stretch of buoys is placed in a shallow area where it is easy to walk across the river, according to Olivarez. 

“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.”

Unless the buoys were remotely controlled by an evil Texan that could cause it to grab an illegal alien and drag them under.

Olivarez said Mexico acknowledged the second body recovered was found “miles upstream from the marine barriers,” which blows the theory out of the water. 

Mexico claimed that Abbott’s barrier in the river is a “violation of our sovereignty.”

Yeah, but sovereignty goes both ways.  

“We express our concern about the impact on the human rights and personal safety of immigrants that these state policies will have, which go in the opposite direction to the close collaboration between our country and the federal government of the United States,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

Sounds like Mexico, the cartels and the Biden administration are working hand-in-glove to keep illegal border crossings as copious as possible.

The Biden administration has targeted Abbott for installing the buoys, filing a lawsuit against Texas last month. The Department of Justice claims that it was unlawful for Texas to put up the barriers and said there were humanitarian concerns. 

If the Biden administration was really concerned about humanitarian concerns, they would be concerned for U.S. citizens living near the borders whose land is being overrun by illegals and for those in American towns and cities where the homeless crisis has gotten out of hand. If they were really concerned about the humanitarian situation, the administration would make it clear to those who would seek illegal entry into the US that they would be wasting their time--this would save countless lives of those who die in the process.

“The floating barrier poses a risk to navigation, as well as public safety, in the Rio Grande River, and it presents humanitarian concerns,” a warning letter from the department said.

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