EAGLE PASS, TEXAS—Pulling “three or four bodies out” of the Rio Grande in one day is not unheard of for Harish Garcia or his colleagues at the Eagle Pass fire station near the border of Mexico, he says.
“Before all the immigration started with people crossing and everything, we would still get [dead bodies in the river], but it was very uncommon,” Garcia tells The Daily Signal in a recent interview, noting it “was maybe one or two every month” before the spike in illegal crossings.
“Regardless of how we feel or what we think, it’s a job that needs to get done and it needs to get done efficiently,” Garcia, a firefighter and EMT, adds. Still, he says there are “a lot of feelings” when he and his team are pulling minors out of the water.
“I would say it’s the younger patients, the kids, the pediatric patients, anywhere from ten years…
