Young Paramedics Faced With Dead Bodies in Rio Grande Struggle to Cope

EAGLE PASS, Texas—Mass illegal immigration is pushing rescue crews in this small Texas border town close to their breaking point. The mighty Rio Grande has become a river of misery for Eagle Pass Fire Chief Manuel Mello III and his 52 first responders. His medics sometimes confide: “Chief, I’m sick and tired of going out to the river and pulling bodies out,” Chief Mello told The Epoch Times, as he described how much the border crisis is affecting his department’s rescue workers. They are grappling with record numbers of drowned men, women, and children who perish while crossing the river from Mexico into the United States....