Six-foot alligator presents deadly threat
to migrants crossing the Rio Grande
Washington Examiner,
by
Anna Giaritelli
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
7/1/2019 11:33:03 AM
Texas Border Patrol agents fear that a six-foot alligator who lives in the Rio Grande, which migrants swim across daily to get into the United States from Mexico, may carry out a deadly attack.
Federal agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, have known about the reptile for several years, but say they have seen it more often in recent months at a section of the river where most migrants illegally cross in the region.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/1/2019 11:37:30 AM (No. 111174)
Alligators would be one way of keeping he illegals out of the Rio Grande. I say load up the Rio Grande with a few more.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 7/1/2019 12:00:44 PM (No. 111195)
Piraña?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Namma 7/1/2019 12:02:09 PM (No. 111196)
have friends that would laugh saying how stupid PRESIDENT Trump is because he thinks he can build a wall across the Rio Grande. Well, I say this would create a "wall" certainly would keep people out of the river.
DO IT. I will be glad to purchase a few alligators and donate them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hershey 7/1/2019 12:09:05 PM (No. 111206)
Import a LOT more from the Everglades....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
slab 7/1/2019 12:16:07 PM (No. 111210)
I'll guess this big fella has already developed a taste for 'tacos and beans'.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/1/2019 12:16:09 PM (No. 111211)
There's Chupucabra in them there hills too.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
web 7/1/2019 12:23:43 PM (No. 111217)
Alligators are not indigenous to the Rio Grande river, and there is no "normal" water level, because of a series of dams. I don't know about further down in Texas, but it goes from nothing to over six feet in Southern New Mexico, when they open the spillways at Elephant Butte dam around June 1. I think the Border Patrol agents were having fun with the reporter...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rochow 7/1/2019 12:37:17 PM (No. 111229)
Great! Gather up gaters from other places and dump them into the Rio!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/1/2019 12:43:51 PM (No. 111235)
More gators.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 7/1/2019 12:45:21 PM (No. 111239)
six foot?? that's not a real alligator. Let us ship you a couple hundred 10-12 foot REAL alligators from Florida. I'm actually ashamed texans would admit to something that small
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hershey 7/1/2019 1:12:55 PM (No. 111268)
The more I think about it, how about some of those Pythons the Everglades is overrun with???
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
StormCnter 7/1/2019 1:30:28 PM (No. 111280)
No need for pythons, #12. We have great big rattlers behind every big rock and under every agarita bush.
I also tend to doubt the alligator story, but there are snappin' turtles in the Rio Grande. If one chomps on you, it won't let go til it thunders!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Edgelady 7/1/2019 1:42:29 PM (No. 111295)
There are alligators in South Texas in ranches, have been for years. These guys will travel great distances during mating season - so I'd not be surprised if there was at least one in the Rio Grande.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
john56 7/1/2019 2:12:59 PM (No. 111312)
Is he wearing a MAGA cap? Or a Build The Wall tshirt ?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/1/2019 2:33:59 PM (No. 111331)
Can you imagine the reaction of the leftist and liberal Democrats and their activist liberal Federal Judge buddies if President Trump were to propose transporting ten thousand alligators from Florida and seeding the Rio Grande River in Texas with them? No doubt they would claim that Trump is proposing the invention of a second holocaust?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 7/1/2019 3:44:14 PM (No. 111371)
A six-foot gator? Heck, a gator that size isn't stupid enough to tangle with an adult human. Let's not forget, a gator's tail is over 1/3 it's body length.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 7/1/2019 4:09:26 PM (No. 111389)
Florida has more gators than they can handle. How about shipping a few thousand to Texas. Plus, as an added bonus, they can ship thousands of pythons that have invaded the everglades. If the gators don't get em, the pythons will.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 7/1/2019 4:12:15 PM (No. 111392)
Good news. Can we get some more put in there?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Omen55 7/1/2019 4:25:21 PM (No. 111407)
The Nile Croc is the best for the job.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LoneVoice 7/1/2019 7:17:52 PM (No. 111527)
If there's only one alligator in the Rio Grand it must be critically endangered in that habitat. There weren't any wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming until environmentalists imported thousands of them from Canada. It only seems right to repopulate the Rio Grand with Florida gators.
It seems to me that Austin should get their fair share too.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/2/2019 3:51:53 PM (No. 112182)
Import more alligators and/or crocodiles, whichever is more endangered. Once there, call the Sierra Club, PETA, or some other salamander and owl loving environmental group to save the endangered species. The environmental groups will be sure to stop the flow of illegals immediately to save the animals. The Endangered Species Act will finally be useful for something.
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If it's indigenous to the area, perhaps we should give it some "friends and family" to hang around with.