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2023-08-12 22:57:13 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0AE397DBCEF7D95613014E2B5086773BBC287612FB70B48F99D84B4EA3B69364
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One person drowned upstream from the barrier and floated into the buoys. A 2nd body was found nearby, not caught in the buoys. At the time of this post no one had been killed by 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 Deaths were tragically common, even before the buoys were installed. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/24/texas-migrant-bodies-exhumed-eagle-pass-identify/
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