Migrants contemplate dangerous crossings despite border deaths and detention conditions

MATAMOROS, Mexico - Some migrant families this weekend contemplated crossing the swirling Rio Grande from Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S. despite several recent drowning deaths.

Cuban migrant Viviana Martinez was considering the dangerous crossing with her husband and 1-year-old son. She's five months pregnant and has been in the northeast border city of Matamoros waiting to cross the border legally into Texas for more than two weeks.

Martinez, 30, worried about her family's health and safety. There were 160 other asylum seekers on the waiting list to cross the border, and only a handful had been allowed across since she arrived.