a migrant mother screams for help for herself and her son, that he carried in his arms, when he tried to cross the Rio Grande, which separates Mexico from the state of Texas. “I can’t walk!” She can be heard saying desperately, then immediately asks them: “Don’t abandon me!“And, even though she is standing, she is exhausted and begs the US National Guard to rescue her.

However, the two patrol crews turn a deaf ear, despite the fact that one of them is just two meters away from her, as can be seen in the main video of this news. But the guards observe the scene, apparently impassive; and the other boat doesn’t even stop.

It is at that moment that they both disappear, but shortly after “we saw them crawling on the Mexican shore,” says a witness. An attempt to travel to the United States that almost ended in disgrace in the bed of the Río Grande, also known as Río Bravo for its turbulent waters, from which about 30 bodies are recovered each month.