guardsman, border patrol, dps trooper, they have a split-second decision to make operations, whether river or mountain in west texas. there s really no way to determine if this could have been avoidable. now we do know, of course, for a fact if there was more effective border policies that would reduce the number of illegal immigrants coming across the dangerous river. again, we will continue to see the flow of immigrants coming across. bill reported earlier that there are immigrants coming across the river knowing there s been drownings in this past week alone but, again, difficult to put into words about what took place and, again, great work by men and women, right now we are using every resource at our disposal from u.s. border patrol, texas game, military team performing search and rescue operations to rescue the soldiers and, of course, we want to extend our prayers on behalf of the department of public