Last month we reported on the cadaver crisis in Eagle Pass, Texas, a town on the Mexican border that has been swamped this year not only by living migrants but by the dead as well.
A video report by Fox News, posted today, features Eagle Pass Fire Department Chief Manuel Mello III, who says his department’s rescue and recovery services are overwhelmed every day by the more than 1,100 illegals who cross over from Mexico. And on average each of those days, authorities are finding the body of a migrant who didn’t make it. Most of the bodies are drowning victims in the Rio Grande.
On Thursday, September 1, for example, nine illegal migrants drowned in the river near Eagle Pass and another 37 had to be rescued by U.S. authorities. The surrounding county is on target to experience 300 body recoveries this year. “It’s almost like a war zone,” Mello says.
As noted in our earlier posting, the county’s two mortuaries remain full, forcing Mello’s department to request additional refrigerated trucks to store the excess bodies before they can be interred.
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