You’re looking at just one of 26 groups of over 100 people who were illegally crossing over into the United States.
These large groups are reportedly consistently crossing into the United States near the Antelope Wells Ports of Entry in New Mexico.
U.S. Border Patrol Agent Carlos Antunez said: “We haven’t seen these types of numbers in that area in a while.”
Border Patrol agents said they discovered a man among hundreds of migrants detained in New Mexico who was diagnosed with flesh-eating bacteria.
The man was taken to the hospital after telling an agent that he had a growing rash on his leg. And officials said in a statement on Jan. 25 that the unidentified migrant is in need of extensive treatment.
Antunez said, “If they need medical attention, they get transported to a local hospital. You know they wear gloves and masks to protect themselves.”
Flesh-eating bacteria is a rare condition called necrotizing fasciitis that spreads quickly in the body and can be fatal, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In July 2018, USA Today reported that flesh-eating bacteria killed one person and infected nine others in Virginia.
Holocaust Survivor Remembers Auschwitz on Her Birthday
Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is also the birthday of a 92-year-old Auschwitz survivor Cipora Feivlovich.On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers walked through the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp into a world of horror. By that time, most of the prisoners had been forced on death marches by the Nazis, only about 7,000 prisoners left alive in the camp. Among them was Cipora Feivlovich who spent time in Auschwitz as a teenager.
She grew up in a Transylvanian village with a large Jewish population and lived a pretty normal life until she was 14, when the Nazis took her entire family in the middle of the night.
They spent three days nonstop on a train to Auschwitz. Her parents, brother, and best friend all died there.
Feivlovich said: “My husband demanded of me ‘Don’t stop talking about the Holocaust because if we don’t speak about it, there will be enough Holocaust deniers after us. Don’t take it (criticisms) to heart,’ and this is what I am doing. I don’t just live the Holocaust. It is important for me to speak about it but when I’m finished, it’s all over and I resume living my life.”
On this day, an official remembrance ceremony was held at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Officials and survivors paid homage, marking the 74th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in an annual ceremony.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and other government officials were joined in prayer by some of the last remaining survivors of the death camp.
Icebreakers Patrol Upper Niagara River in New York
Icebreakers patrolled the upper Niagara River in New York on Jan. 26 as freezing conditions were forecast to continue in the northeastern United States.A snow squall warning remained in effect on Jan. 27 as a cold front swept across the area.
Earlier on Jan. 25, heavy ice floes on the Hudson River dislodged eight vessels from their moorings near Troy, New York, causing them to float down river, resulting in some of them colliding with bridges.
Several bridges along the river were temporarily closed and public transportation was disrupted.
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