‘Like traps meant for animals’: death no deterrent at the Rio Grande river barrier

Humanitarian workers say buoys near Eagle Pass in Texas are an atrocity but have not stopped people trying to cross into the US

The deaths of two people near a floating barrier installed by Texas officials on the Rio Grande will do nothing to stop people attempting to make the illegal crossing into the US, according to migrants and activists along the border.

The buoys and razor wire installed along the river on the orders of the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, have done nothing to stop migration", said Sister Isabel Turcios, director of the Frontera Digna migrant shelter across the river in Piedras Negras, Mexico.