"I hear a young woman yelling, 'help, help, I'm drowning,' " he says. He had almost made it to the Texas side, he says, when he heard screams coming from the water. Infante crossed the river a few weeks ago near Del Rio, Texas with a group of migrants. "We all just jumped into the river without knowing how deep it was, and how strong the currents were," Infante says in Spanish. Venezuelan migrant Anderson Infante saw the river's power firsthand. NPR watched as several families with young children waded out into the water on the Mexico side, only to turn back when it got too deep. Earlier this month, nine migrants were recovered from the river near Eagle Pass on a single day. National A dramatic shift at the border as migrants converge on a remote corner of South Texas A dramatic rescue in the angry riverĮagle Pass has emerged as one of the more dangerous crossing points on the border - especially after heavy rains, when the river is high. Hundreds more have perished from extreme heat in remote borderlands, or in the backs of tractor-trailers. More than 800 migrants have died border-wide in the fiscal year that ends this week, according to internal government figures shared by a senior Border Patrol official.ĭrownings are part of the reason why. This has been the deadliest year ever for migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. "It's basically a drowning a day that you're seeing," Mello says. Mello says the department used to get one or two calls a month. The fire department helps recover the bodies of migrants who drowned trying to cross. It is very deceptive, very dangerous," says Manuel Mello, the fire chief in Eagle Pass, a small city in South Texas that's become one of the busiest crossing spots on the entire border. "It seems like it's a slow moving river, but it's fairly swift. On the other side, it has a different name: El Río Bravo, "the angry river" or "the fierce river." The river that divides Texas and Mexico is known on the U.S. Border Patrol under an international bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, earlier this month. Migrants waiting to be picked up by the U.S.
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