The head of the US Border Patrol has slammed as “completely inappropriate” sexually explicit posts about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and comments questioning the authenticity of a photo of a drowned man and his young daughter in a secret Facebook group for agents.

Last November, I stood on the riverbank of the Rio Grande. I was on the American side, in Texas.

Some moments give pause for thought. One such moment was captured in the photograph of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month old daughter Valeria.

In an era where inhumanity almost seems to reach a level beyond the dystopian fiction portrayed in the current TV series Years and Years, the images of dead children emerging along the Rio Grande provide a jolting warning that the world refugee crisis is coming ever closer to the portals of the west’s mature democracies.

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The mother of a man who drowned alongside his young daughter while trying to reach the US has said she is comforted by how they clung to each other in their final moments.

The two-year-old's arm was draped around her father's neck, suggesting she clung to him in her final moments.

The long list of new releases includes Netflix original series, comedy specials, documentaries and family friendly options.

SOME novelists expect their readers to learn a new language. Clockwork Orange is challenging, and so, more recently, is Trainspotting. The Gringo Champion is equally demanding.

THE debate around college fees is one of the most ideologically divisive alive in our world. 

Paddy Barnes is eager to upstage his friend and fight-night headliner Jamie Conlan tomorrow night in Belfast.

Donald Trump is likely to lose to Ted Cruz in the race to be Republican presidential nominee, writes John Bruton

US: A legally blind barber was awarded $100,000 by a Massachusetts commission against discrimination after it says he was wrongly fired.

It’s an escape route as old and worn as prizefighting itself. Over 300 years of identical journeys to the one Carl Frampton has taken, seeking a new life in the New World.

Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy as Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul who lent his name to the property, makes a bid for the White House.

Investigators said about 300 rounds were fired during a shoot-out across the Rio Grande between US law enforcement officers and suspected drug runners.

Troy Matteson shot a six-under-par round of 66 to take a three-shot lead into the final round of the Puerto Rico Open.

ALTHOUGH we should learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others, we persist in following the failed tactics of the US in relation to drugs. Our drug problems, which began in Dublin, have gradually spread throughout the country.

ONE of the great myths of the more romantic wing of environmental movement has been that indigenous peoples always treat the environment better than we do. White man bad, red man “green”, as you might say.

THE violence involved in Mexico’s drug war is chilling and the escalating death toll truly frightening.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON is taking time out from his US Masters build-up to meet President Obama at the White House on St Patrick’s Day.

Rising Australian star Jason Day and 42-year-old American Michael Bradley moved clear of the field in the third round of the Puerto Rico Open in Rio Grande today.

Rocco Mediate, the 46-year-old who last June came so close to toppling Tiger Woods in the US Open, has another chance this weekend for a first victory since 2002.

A fight between gangs at a jail in the near-lawless Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez left at least 20 prisoners dead and seven others injured.

CIUDAD Juarez’s police chief has stepped down after criminal gangs made a chilling demand: resign or they would kill one of his officers every two days.

Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers and Gus Van Sant - all past winners of the Cannes Film Festival - are in the running for a second trophy as the French Riviera festival celebrates its 60th anniversary next month.

Ten of the world’s great rivers are at risk of drying out, the World Wildlife Fund said today.

Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said today that the government will try to persuade US President George Bush not to sign a bill that would extend a fence along the border to stop millions who cross illegally.

A British warship anchored in Argentina for the first time since the two countries went to war over the Falkland Islands 23 years ago, meeting a chilly reception in its homage to those who died in the conflict.

Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony have helped raise more than $100,000 (€82,440) for two Puerto Rican cancer facilities, after attending a golf event on the Caribbean island.

US Border Patrol agents today exchanged gunfire with drug smugglers across the Rio Grande as they intercepted about 800 pounds of marijuana.

Two days after a family thought they had buried their son – he called to say he was alive and well.

RAGING flood waters killed at least 31 people on Monday when they crashed through a normally arid town in northern Mexico close to the US border.

A flash flood swept through a northern Mexican city, killing at least 31 people caught in the path of an overflowing river, forcing hundreds into shelters, and damaging homes and cars.

Texas Rangers is set in the 1870s, where former Texas Ranger Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) is trying to re-form the group to stop bandits who are killing settlers and stealing cattle along the Texas/Mexico border.