River rescues and barbed wire: a day at the US-Mexico border

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Eagle Pass (United States) (AFP) - The sun had barely risen above Eagle Pass, Texas, when the migrants wading across the Rio Grande from Mexico had a crisis on their hands.

They had tied their belts together to create a makeshift rope to hold onto but it broke, and the river was sweeping away a mother and her one-year-old baby.

The child was grabbed by another man deep in the river, and the mother reached the shore as US authorities just watched. The migrants passed a rope to baby Olga and Yonder Urbina, a temporary relief to the day's already high-strung start.

But the calm that had just washed over the migrants was short-lived.

Greeting them on the US side of the Rio Grande was an inextricable tangle of concertina wire, which Texas authorities reinforce daily.

I guess we're just too civilized for our own good

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1. I should post some stuff...

…on the history of Barbed Wire here in America.

No time, now.