:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/44BEFKVTUSFUTKIPPBSN3KHKLM.jpg "A Colombian family was rescued in the Rio Grande as they tried to cross into the United States")
The Mexican authorities rescued, Monday, February 20, a Colombian family who was stuck in the middle of a wooded area of the Bravo Riveron the border of this country with the United States.
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During the operation, 16 women of different nationalities were rescued, eight people were also captured, mostly Albanians.
According to the National Institute of Migration, these migrants, who lived in Mexico but wanted to cross the other side of the border, remained in the area known as Puente del Ferrocarril’, which is why they had to resort to air support for rescues. .
“It took the use of an airboat to reach them at the point known as the railway bridge, where they were put on a life jacket,” the Mexican government said in a statement.
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Lifting the vehicles could take several hours, sources from the capital’s mobility ministry said.
After this work, led by the Piedras Negras firefighters, the four members of this family, two adults and two minors, were taken to hospital, as they presented symptoms of hypothermia. According to the testimonies given to the authorities, while trying to reach American soil, they were trapped between the depth of the channel, the force of the water and the low temperatures.
According to figures from the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP, for its acronym in English) so far in 2023, there have been 863,929 irregular crossings at the country’s southern border. Of these, 51,984 Colombians were arrested and this case of the family stuck in the Rio Grande joins that of the young man from Cali who died in this border area between Mexico and the United States.
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The event happened on February 8, the day authorities found the body of a man identified as Juan Pablo Montoya Tonuzco. According to those close to him, the youngest of the brothers went through an odyssey to get to the point where he died. He managed to reach Mexico and on December 2, 2022 he was already at the border with the United States.
Before trying to cross the river, he called his mother in Colombia. Agree with RCR News, she insisted that he return, that he give up the trip; however, her son told her it was the last step to achieving her dream.
“He said to me: mom, I’m already in front of the Rio Grande, and that’s the end point. Mother, you only live once,” said Nilce Tonuzco, the victim’s mother. By the way, he said that after this conversation nothing more was heard of the young man. The family was right again until December 5, three days after the last appeal; however, the news was not good.
The figures presented by the position of CPB Colombia as the fourth source country of undocumented immigrants to the United States so far in 2023, above other nations like Venezuela and Honduras.
The U.S. State Office revealed that in December 2022 alone, U.S. authorities arrested 18,020 Colombians attempting to enter the United States through the border area with Mexico.
Due to the increase in irregular migration recorded in recent months, Caracol Radio has learned that the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Republican Kevin MacCarthy, has assured that he is working on an “impeachment” against the Homeland Security Secretary Alexander Mayorkas.
“The Democrats are going to support us in this impeachment trial, nobody wants to see the border as it is today,” Mayorkas said. On the other hand, the CPB said it has reported that countries whose residents try to enter the United States irregularly are Mexico there Cuba con 177.757 there 109,823 peoplerespectively.