(Photo: Facebook/US Border Patrol)
That border guard United States of America confirmed the sighting of a new threat to all migrants trying to cross the border through the Rio Grande: a giant crocodile swimming through the waters Piedras Negras and Acuña, Coahuila.
After news of the sighting, Many people expressed their suspicion that the specimen in question was brought to the place to avoid the passage of those who were there try to reach the north american country by this way.
According to border guards, the reptile was seen underneath Eagles Pass and Del Rio, in Texas United States as on the side of Acuna and Piedras Negras, Coahuila. The moment was captured in a photograph showing the specimen floating.
It should be noted that the different species of crocodiles that inhabit Mexico are located in Mexico Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Quintana Roo, Nayarit, Yucatan and Sinaloa.
The USA is a species that is distributed in the south-east of the country North Carolina to the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas; It’s the American alligator, also known as the caiman Mississippi River.
But already in 2019 the Environment Minister of Coahuila, confirmed the existence of crocodiles and alligators in the river’s waters after video went viral of a lizard being spotted on the banks of the body of water.
It should be noted that the animal is believed not to have arrived naturally, as Texas residents have repeatedly advised to “fill the river with crocodiles” to discourage migrant migration.
For example, in August 2021, state ranchers in a social media group called Texans for Closing the Border floated the idea of dumping a hypothetical thousand alligators into the Rio Grande River in Rio Grande County. Valverde in Texas stop the flow of migrants.
In the post circulating through the networks, care was taken to ensure that migrants only “bring problems to the region”.
(Photo; Screenshot/Texans for Closing the Border, 2021)
From central Mexico, the shortest route to the border of The US is South Texaswhich is why many migrants travel to the Mexican cities of Matamoros, Reynosa, Laredo or Piedras Negras to cross the border into the river’s waters.
In addition, from January to the end of April of this year 2022, the lifeless bodies of 19 migrants were recovered from the Rio Grande in his attempt to cross the border into the United States, the National Migration Institute (INM) reported.
Migrants seeking asylum in the US crossed the Rio Bravo on December 14 (Photo: José Luis González/Reuters)
All migrants died from drowning.; however, the INM did not specify which countries they were from, how many were adults (males and females), and how many were minors.
The same institution announced this from January 1st April 13, 2022, 115,000 279 migrants were intercepted by migrating units in Mexican territory, 97,000 of whom were of legal age (69,868 men and 27,862 women) and 17,649 were minors (10,226 boys and 7,423 girls.
According to this report, the vast majority were from Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba and Nicaragua.
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