The discovery of two bodies in a river on the United States-Mexico border has spurred criticisms that a floating barrier erected by the Republican leader of Texas is endangering migrants and asylum seekers.
Mexican authorities announced on Thursday that they had discovered the bodies of two people in the Rio Grande, one of them stuck in a group of buoys installed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stop people from crossing into the US.
“We are concerned about the impact on migrants’ human rights and personal security that these state policies could have, as they go in the opposite direction to close collaboration,” Mexico’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) responded on Thursday that the body found tangled in the buoys appeared to have drowned earlier and floated downstream.
The second body, which remains unidentified, was discovered about 5 kilometres (3 miles) away from the first.
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