“As you can see the Rio Grande, it’s not a small river,” said Matthew Hudak, the acting chief patrol agent for Customs and Border Protection (CBP). “We’ve done five times as many rescues this year as we did last year.”TRUMP DECLARES EMERGENCY ON BORDERNo day may highlight the danger more this year than Valentine’s Day. Border Patrol agents rescued not one group, but three, trying to cross the river, 17 people in all. BORDER AGENTS FIND 60-FOOT TUNNEL TO MEXICO AT SOUTHERN BORDERTraffic in the area has been steady for months. And indeed, Border Patrol agents say there have been four immigrant deaths in the river in this area since last October.

Source: Fox News February 15, 2019 23:37 UTC