Tensions between Joe Biden's Government and Texas due to the immigration crisis are increasing. Federal and local authorities continue their dispute over surveillance of the border with Mexico. The pulse between the two has recently become more acute, days after three Mexican migrants – a young mother and her two children, aged eight and ten – drowned in the Rio Grande while trying to reach the United States. The back-and-forth between the parties has made it clear that the fight has made one of the most dangerous routes for international immigration even more lethal.
On Monday night, the Biden Government asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the lawsuit that Washington is holding against Texas for surveillance of the border with Mexico. In their request, the federal authorities explain that last Friday, January 12, around 9:00 p.m. (local time), the Government of Mexico informed the Border Patrol that two Mexican migrants were in trouble near a boat ramp on the US side of the border. river. The discovery was in Shelby Park, an area of Eagle Pass County, which has become the epicenter of an immigration crisis that represents a threat to Biden in a year where re-election is at stake.
In their communication, Mexican officials also reported that three people had drowned in that same area an hour earlier, at approximately 8:00 p.m. “Mexican people did not enter the United States,” the Mexican Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on Sunday. The victims were originally from the State of Mexico and were not identified at that time. The bodies were rescued by the Beta group of the National Immigration Institute and the National Guard.
