Re: Biden admin admits migrant drownings occurred before Border Patrol alerted Texas officials

[Fox News]

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> All Biden officials are lying bastards. Bunch of dishonest cunts.

The Biden administration, in a new filing to the Supreme Court, has
admitted that three migrants who drowned last week died long before Border
Patrol agents sought access to the Shelby Park area from Texas officials –
after the administration had blasted the Lone Star state over the
incident.

The Department of Homeland Security and the White House both took aim at
Texas after the deaths of three migrants, including two children, in the
Shelby Park area last week. Texas had seized the area and the
administration said it was refusing to grant Border Patrol access.

"Tragically, a woman and two children drowned last night in the Shelby
Park area of Eagle Pass, which was commandeered by the State of Texas
earlier this week," DHS said in a statement Saturday evening. "In
responding to a distress call from the Mexican government, Border Patrol
agents were physically barred by Texas officials from entering the area."

That statement went on to call Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s policies "cruel,
dangerous, and inhumane, and Texas’s blatant disregard for federal
authority over immigration poses grave risks."

The White House had been similarly scathing over the deaths on Saturday
evening.

"On Friday night, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and
Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol from attempting to provide
emergency assistance. While we continue to gather facts about the
circumstances of these tragic deaths, one thing is clear: Governor
Abbott’s political stunts are cruel, inhumane, and dangerous. U.S. Border
Patrol must have access to the border to enforce our laws."

However, in a court filing as part of ongoing litigation, the DOJ said
Mexican officials advised Border Patrol at 9 p.m. local time that the
migrants had drowned at 8 p.m but that there were an additional two
migrants "in distress" on the U.S. side of the border. The filing repeats
the claim that Border Patrol was not allowed to enter the area "even in
emergency situations." The two additional migrants, who were suffering
from hypothermia, were later rescued by Mexican officials.

However, the DOJ suggested that it may have been able to spot the migrants
if they had access to the area.

DOJ RENEWS SCOTUS PUSH TO ACT AFTER TEXAS SEIZES BORDER AREAS, BLOCKS
BORDER PATROL FROM ENTERING

"It is impossible to say what might have happened if Border Patrol had had
its former access to the area – including through its surveillance trucks
that assisted in monitoring the area," they said. "At the very least,
however, Border Patrol would have had the opportunity to take any
available steps to fulfill its responsibilities and assist its
counterparts in the Mexican government with undertaking the rescue
mission. Texas made that impossible."

Texas had initially pushed back on the narrative, saying that claims of
requesting access to save distressed migrants "are inaccurate."

"Claims that [Texas Military Dept] prevented Border Patrol from saving the
lives of drowning migrants are wholly inaccurate. At the time that Border
Patrol requested access, the drownings had occurred, Mexican authorities
were recovering the bodies, and Border Patrol expressed these facts to the
TMD personnel on site," the Texas Military Department said in a statement.

Abbott blamed lawmakers and some media outlets for being "so eager to
point [the] finger at Texas for [the] drowning of migrants, they forgot to
get the facts."

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occurred-before-border-patrol-alerted-texas-officials