The travelers had paid “hundreds of dollars apiece” for the trip from Cape Verde. In June 2019, US Customs and Border Protection in Del Rio, Texas, USA, arrested more than 500 Africans from Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola, for trying to cross into the USA via the Rio Grande River.
Matafiyan sun biya "dubunnan dalolin Amurka kowanne" domin tafiya daga ƙasar Cape ɓerde. A watan Yuni na shekarar 2019, jami'an Hukumar Kwastam da Tsaron Iyaka a Del Rio da ke Teɗas a ƙasar Amurka sun cafke fiye da mutane 500 'yan nahiyar Afirka waɗanda suka fito daga ƙasashen Jamhuriyar Kongo da Jamhuriyar Dimukraɗiyyar Kongo da Angola a yayin da suke ƙoƙarin tsallakawa zuwa Amurka ta cikin Kogin Rio Grande.