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Lots of news has been surfacing at the southwestern U.S. border of late.

A tragedy occurred on the Mexican side as authorities aim to identify two bodies found in the Rio Grande River. As of this writing, it isn’t clear how these individuals died.

However, one of the bodies was found along the newly installed floating barrier in the river, which has raised concerns that the barrier was the cause of death for at least one of the victims.

A Texas Department of Security director said the person likely drowned upriver and floated down into the barrier. But this isn’t enough to save Texas from criticism over its new river-based illegal migration deterrent.

At a press briefing on Thursday, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the buoy barrier.

Gov. Abbott has maintained that he will keep the buoy barrier in place to specifically prevent migrants illegally crossing the treacherous river just to evade detection. But Obrador isn’t buying it.

According to reporting from CNN, the Mexican president said the following:

No one should be treated like this. That kind of treatment does not come from a good person; only by being good can we be happy . . . Abbott shouldn’t act like that; it’s inhumane.

Obrador further said that his government was looking to have the buoys removed.

In response Andrew Mahaleris, a spokesman for Abbott, defended the governor’s decision and placed blame on what he said was the Mexican government’s inaction as well as President Joe Biden’s “reckless open border policies.”

A report from the Washington Examiner reveals that cartels are able to sell appointed entries into the U.S. by hacking the Border Patrol’s CBP One app.

The Mexican government recently announced that it is allowing Guatemalans to travel through Mexico if they previously secured an appointment through the app.

Cartels caught wind of this and apparently have a decent hacking network available to them. They are reportedly profiting from this rule by selling these appointments to any immigrant who wishes to travel through Mexico.

Chad Wolf, the former acting Department of Homeland Security secretary, remarked that this is just the latest cartel tactic which seemingly slips by the Biden administration. He is quoted as saying:

It’s further evidence as this administration continues to try to come up with a new security paradigm along that border that I don’t think they really understand it. They don’t understand the lengths and depths the cartels will continue to go to. As the administration continues to put these ‘legal pathways’ into place, that’s music to the cartel’s ears.

But as the migrant crisis continues to rear its head in Texas, other states are helping. Many Republican-led states have offered aid in the form of National Guard troops, and now Iowa is counted among them.

On Wednesday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ office noted that the state will be using funds given to them by the American Rescue Plan in order to send some of their National Guard to Texas.

Other states deployed their troops this week as well including Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Nebraska.