Eight migrants dead after dozens swept downriver along Rio Grande

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : CBP's Del Rio sector has been transformed since 2020 from one of the sleepiest stretches of the southern border into its busiest and most strained.
55% : Agents in the Del Rio sector have recovered the bodies of more than 200 migrants since Oct. 1, according to CBP.
53% : During the rescue effort along the river, U.S. agents recovered the bodies of six drowning victims and Mexican authorities found two others, according to CBP.
50% : The Border Patrol is working with search and rescue teams along the river "as the search continues for other possible victims," the CBP statement said.
43% : The bodies of eight people were recovered from the Rio Grande after dozens of migrants were swept downriver near Eagle Pass, in what appeared to be the deadliest mass drowning along the border in years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday.

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