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Venezuelan parents watch from home as their son is buried in Texas after drowning

Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Olivares died at 24, drowning in the Rio Grande not far from where he was buried Thursday at the Maverick County Cemetery in Eagle Pass.

The sun sets over an American island in the Rio Grande River as firefighter EMTs try to rescue a group of migrants stranded on the banks of Eagle Pass on Feb. 04, 2024.

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