The Mexican government has reported for the first time that a body was spotted along the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed recently in the Rio Grande river, across from Eagle Pass, Texas
The barrier was installed in July, and stretches roughly the length of three soccer fields. It is designed to make it more difficult for migrants to climb over or swim under the barrier.
The U.S. Justice Department is suing Abbott over the floating barrier. The lawsuit filed Monday asks a court to force Texas to remove it. The Biden administration says the barrier raises humanitarian and environmental concerns.
The buoys are the latest escalation of Texas’ border security operation that also includes razor-wire fencing and arresting migrants on trespassing charges.
So it achieved the purpose Abbott intended.
Update on this story, they ended up recovering two bodies. Haunting similarity to what happened with
Emmet TillJames Chaney, Andrew Goodman,and Michael Schwerner , when the FBI dredged the Mississippi for their bodies they found a number of lynching victims they weren’t even looking for.e; I misremembered which hate crime the FBI was investigating when this happened, the Wikipedia article I linked under the correct names also notes
During the investigation, searchers including Navy divers and FBI agents discovered the bodies of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore in the area (the first was found by a fisherman). They were college students who had disappeared in May 1964. Federal searchers also discovered 14-year-old Herbert Oarsby, and the bodies of five other deceased African Americans who were never identified.
That reminds me of the serial killer Dean Corll, the candy man. He killed at least 17 young men and buried them beneath a boat storage shed. The police ignored the case for a long time because the young men were minorities and/or gay. When they finally started digging up the bodies and hit 17, setting a new Texas record for a serial killer, the police stopped digging up bodies, most likely because of the embarrassment and outrage of them essentially ignoring this serial killer for so long.
Ugh, I believe it, something really similar happened with Jeffery Dahmer. It’s terrifying and infuriating how marginalized people can die so quietly and their deaths get forgotten so easily.
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You know he popped open the champagne and
dancedwiggled in his chair at the news
Mission accomplished! You’re monsters!
