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2023-08-08 23:09:34 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E61E4145862452A7F9B41583C4E289388F4C930374A34CB1485829CB7E665D78
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One person drowned upstream from the marine barrier and floated into the buoys. A second body was found nearby, not caught in the buoys. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rio-grande-buoy-barrier-body-texas-abbott/ https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2023-08-03/dead-body-found-stuck-to-texas-gov-abbotts-border-buoys-in-the-rio-grande https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/07/zbtc-a07.html Immigrant deaths in the Rio Grande were a tragically common occurrence, even before the buoys were installed. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/24/texas-migrant-bodies-exhumed-eagle-pass-identify/
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