According to reports from Mexican officials, a Honduran immigrant recognized 1 of the 2 remains found in the Rio Grande as being her son.
However, the body discovered close to a floating barrier that Texas Governor Greg Abbott had placed in a river throughout Eagle Pass, Texas, hadn’t been the 20-year-old Honduran male.
The mother of the Honduran guy had made a tentative identification of a body found some three miles up the river from the buoys, according to Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department, but further confirmation might involve fingerprint testing due to the body’s terrible decomposition.
The mom, who is at a refugee center for migrants in Piedras Negras, the Mexican border city throughout from Eagle Pass, told the police that she identified her son’s tattoos on his body.