Border Marine Unit Makes 'Numerous' Life-Saving Interventions in Rio Grande

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The Texas Department of Public Safety has praised its Tactical Marine Unit for numerous life-saving interventions in the Rio Grande, with dramatic video showing what it said were the conditions involved in “mass illegal migration”.

The rescue footage covered the period November 18-24, the department said. It shows numerous people, including children, being pulled from the “unpredictable and dangerous Rio Grande.”

The efforts were part of Operation Lone Star, an initiative launched by Texas Gov Greg Abbott in 2021. Credit: Texas Department of Public Safety – South Texas Region via Storyful

Video Transcript

- Make sure we have--

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[RESCUERS, VICTIMS SHOUTING]

- There you go. There you go, there you go.

- You got it. You got it. You got it. You got it.

[WOMAN SCREAMING]

- All right, right here.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- [SPEAKING SPANISH]

- Yep, yep, yep. He's good. He's good.

- [SPEAKING SPANISH]

- Come on up.

- Get over to your side. All right, coming up. Coming up. Coming over.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

There. Yep, go, go, go.

- Hey, I got-- I got a response. I got a response.

- Hey, help. Help.

- [SPEAKING SPANISH]

- Come here, sweetie. Come on.

- [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[GIRL WAILING]

- [SPEAKING SPANISH]

- Do you guys have any migrant centers y'all's way?

- Got [? her? ?]

- Nothing now as of yet. I got her. Together [INAUDIBLE]. You're OK.

- 1, 2, 3.

[GRUNTS]

- Compressions if you can.

[ENGINE REVVING]