This Saturday, US Congressman Henry Cuellar blamed the Texas authorities for the “tragedy” in which two minors and a woman drowned when they attempted to cross the Rio Grande at the Mexican border without responding to a Border Patrol emergency call.

The Democrat said the three bodies were recovered early this Saturday morning by Mexican authorities.

“This is a tragedy and the state (Texas) bears responsibility”– Cuellar wrote on the X (formerly Twitter) account.

According to the congressman, The Border Patrol learned about this on Friday evening. that six migrants were in danger when they tried to cross the Rio Grande in Shelby Park, in the town of Eagle Pass, Texas.

He noted that this federal immigration agency tried “unsuccessfully” to contact several Texas agencies by phoneincluding the Military Department, the National Guard, and the Department of Security (DPS) command post to report an emergency.

He emphasized that border guards later reported personally To the Texas Military Department and the Texas National Guard at the entrance gate to Shelby Park.

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“However, soldiers from the Texas War Department stated that They won’t allow immigrants access — even in the event of an emergency — and that they would send a soldier to investigate the situation,” the congressman lamented.

Joe Biden’s government argued before the US Supreme Court that the state of Texas prevented the patrol from gaining access to section of the border at Eagle Pass.

The Texas National Guard, deployed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to that part of the border territory, preventing the approach or access of immigration agents According to the complaint, along a 4-kilometer stretch of the border with Mexico.

In this area, where Eagle Pass is separated from Piedras Negras, Coahuila, by the Rio Grande River, Thousands of migrants tried to enter the United States in the last month.

Eunice Rendon, coordinator of Agenda Migrante, explained andn Aristegui Live that the new Texas anti-immigrant legislation -SB 4-, unclear regarding migrant detentions.

(according to information from EFE And Aristegui News)