Shocking video shows kids being dragged across the deadly Rio Grande river as migrants continue to make risky crossing
SHOCKING footage reveals the moment kids are being dragged across Rio Grande as migrants continue to cross the deadly river.
A group of 50 people were filmed crossing the river in Del Rio, Texas, carrying young children.
Smugglers start sending groups of migrants in the morning when the current is low, reports Fox News.
All of the migrants said they were coming from Venezuela with half of them saying they have family in the US.
“You see the steady stream of people coming across the border with Mexico entering our nation without going through a legal checkpoint, without any of those things.
“You don’t see them being COVID tested right there, right?” narrated anchor Harris Faulkner of “The Faulkner Focus.”
“Just moments ago there appeared to be an elderly gentleman they were helping out of the river.
“Some have camping gear so they can spend the night and do what they need to do. This is a heavy stream of people.
“A lot of children in the group that we are seeing now, too. Women and children in this group.
“Looks like that woman is praying as she comes across.
“We have seen instances where our Border Patrol have had to get engaged to save people. That water is moving.”
It comes as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Biden deserves credit for “improvements” at the Mexico border and slammed the Trump administration for “four years of destruction.”
“After four years of an immigration system rooted in destructive and chaotic policies, President Biden is taking the challenge head on and is building a fair, orderly, and human immigration system,” Psaki said. “That’s our objective.”
Her comments come as Biden has been blasted over his $4billion plan to bail out “corrupt countries” in an attempt to address the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border.
Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris has defended her decision to send an additional $310million to the Central America region of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras by saying the administration wants “to help people find hope at home” and blaming climate change in part for the problem.
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Harris has also been heavily criticized for not yet visiting the Mexico border to see the humanitarian crisis for herself.
Last month 20 undocumented migrants including two minors were found hiding under the boards of a trailer.
A migrant smuggler was captured dropping a two-year-old child over the 18-foot-high Mexico border wall, in a shocking video.