“If you just look at the river, it might look calm,” Munoz said. “Then you start coming across, and you’re not a good swimmer, you come in danger of being taken away by current.”who might be struggling in the water or suffering from heat-related illnesses on land but are unable to get to help themselves.
“When they’re crossing, if they’re not able to make landfall, they tell us what is the last place we saw him go down, and we will go in there and we’ll try to recover the body,” Border Patrol agent Heriberto Espinoza said.“A drone, as you can see, is operating at about 1,156 feet,” a drone operator said. “The agents have identified and located the subject in distress. And now, they’re rendering aid.