The moment a Venezuelan immigrant filmed a video for his father to inform him that he was crossing the border between the United States and Mexico and before he and another person perished in the Rio Grande is captured on a never-before-seen video.
Four weeks after eight migrants were discovered dead in the river, the non-profit law firm 1800migrante.com published the heartbreaking video on Thursday.
Exleiker González, 26, and a third migrant stood a few yards to his right while Walter González Pia, 21, was seen waddling into the Rio Grande in the video.
‘Talk to them. What’s going on?’ González Piña said. ‘We made it dad.’
In Eagle Pass, Texas, on September 2, González Pia and Exleiker González were on their way to the beach of the Rio Grande when a current washed them downstream, according to 1800migrante.com.
Once on land, the other man called Guady González in Texas to inform him that his son, González Pia, had been reported missing in the river.
He frantically looked for both individuals before informing the Americans. Border Guard.
‘The guy who was ahead, when he reached the shore, turned around and did not see them,’ Guady González told 1800migrante.com. ‘(He said) that he spent almost an hour looking for them and did not find them, then he turned himself in … and informed the authorities and they went out to look for them.’
