Workers pulled from water tank near Tarrant-Parker county line
Two workers were found unresponsive in a water tank near the Parker/Tarrant County border Friday, prompting an investigation.
Co-workers called 911 after losing contact with the men, who were performing water infrastructure checks.
Their current condition remains unknown.
An investigation is underway after two workers were found in a water tank near the border of Parker and Tarrant County.
Deputies with the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office were called to the 12000 block of Aledo Road after two men were found.
The men were performing checks of water infrastructure in the area.
When co-workers could not reach them, they called 911.
By the time rescue crews arrived, the men were found unresponsive.
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The condition of the workers is unknown.
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Information in this article comes from the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office.
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The former acting ICE director said that as arrests become less targeted and include larger swaths of people, like several ICE raids seen recently in California, the risk for agents and officers on the ground increases. 'I'm just saying it's a reality that when you have a large number of agents making an operation in a public setting, in an urban environment, it increases the risks dramatically of these kinds of things happening,' Sandweg said of protests where individuals have assaulted and thrown rocks at officers. DHS has had to deploy twice the number of ICE agents for certain arrests than they normally would because of the increase in protests and individuals attempting to intervene in arrests. 'It's not because of the threat of the alien,' Lyons said. 'It's because we need that other five to six officers and agents to provide security' for those agents conducting the arrest. Lyons noted that 'it's usually not other migrants or illegal aliens' who 'want to inject themselves into a law enforcement situation, which could be dangerous for everybody.' ICE's budget is set for a massive cash infusion after Republicans delivered Trump an agenda-laden spending bill earlier this month, giving the agency $75 billion to expand enforcement and removal operations. While a large chunk of that cash will go toward building detention facilities to hold the influx of deportees, ICE will be able to spend large sums on recruiting and training up new officers to bolster the number of daily arrests, something the Trump administration wants to significantly increase. When the increased budget is fully deployed, Sandweg said, it 'is going to fundamentally change immigration enforcement in a way we've never seen. It's going to double almost the number of agents ICE can put on the street.'
