Two bodies found in Rio Grande, one snared in Gov. Greg Abbott's river trap

Two bodies were discovered in the Rio Grande and recovered by Mexican authorities on Wednesday. Migrants drowning while attempting to make the crossing into the United States is a common occurrence; what's new is that one of the bodies was caught in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's razor-wire-covered string of buoys permanently anchored in the middle of the river, an obstacle intended to block refugees from making it from the Mexican side of the river to the Texas side. That body, so far identified only as a Honduran child, is the first to be discovered caught in the line of buoys itself.

Initial reports have conflicting details as to how the bodies were discovered, but the second victim was found several hours later and three miles upstream. Texas officials were quick to declare that neither body had anything to do with their new installation of mid-river buoys and lines of razor wire along the river's edge.