The worst we ve seen : Migrant influx overwhelms Southwest Texas border counties
Dudley Althaus, Special correspondent
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A large group of migrants from Venezuela cross the Rio Grande near Del Rio. The U.S. has granted Venezuelans already in the country temporary protection from deportations because of the economic collapse and violence in their country.Jessica Phelps /San Antonio Express-News
DEL RIO Struggling to escape the Rio Grande’s grasping current, Ernesto Parra collapsed onto the refuse-choked Texas shore.
“I was very afraid, especially for the little ones,” Parra, 55, said moments after he waded across the river from Mexico with his wife, Mariana, their 11-year-old son and two dozen other migrants.
Some are welcomed, most turned away, as haphazard immigration policies play out along the border
Paradoxical scenes play out daily along this remote stretch of the Texas-Mexico border from Ojinaga to Del Rio and Eagle Pass.
A Texas Department of Public safety trooper helps Belkis Salas of Venezuela out of the Rio Grande near Del Rio on Friday, April 30, 2021. Salas struggled to cross the river, falling halfway through and being pulled up by her son-in-law and a smuggler. Many Venezuelans are being welcomed for asylum processing on one part of the border while Central Americans are being quickly expelled on other parts of the border.(Jessica Phelps / San Antonio Express-News)