Video released by the Border Patrol shows the girl picking her way, alone, along the wall. Officials including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas expressed outrage and said the incident showed the abuse children suffer at the hands of smugglers. The footage was captured last Thursday night near.
The abandoned boy was reportedly found April 1, just one day after the Border Patrol released footage of smugglers dropping 3-year-old and 5-year-old sisters from a 14-foot border wall and abandoning them. The girls were left alone and rescued by Border Patrol. A heartbreaking video has emerged purportedly showing a 5-year-old boy screaming 'don’t go' after being abandoned along the U.S.-Mexico border. The girl walked north into the U.S., following the channel of the Tijuana River. Last week, footage was released of two abandoned young sisters being dropped from a 14-foot wall by smugglers. Over the last month, the administration has been able to transfer children to the custody of Health and Human Services at a faster pace, though there are still more than 20,000 children in US custody as of May 9. Agents said they spotted the 5-year-old Guatemalan girl being dropped off at a point where the border wall comes to an end near San Ysidro, California, on Monday morning. In March, CBP encountered nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children at the US-Mexico border, according to the latest available data from the agency. “Can you help me?” the boy asked a Border Patrol agent in a video shared with CNN. And last month, a 10-year old was found by US Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas without his mother after a farmer spotted him and alerted authorities. In late March, a smuggling incident along the US-Mexico border garnered national headlines, when Border Patrol released video of two young Ecuadorian sisters being dropped over a 14-foot-tall border fence in the desert. In April, Breitbart Texas reported about a similar situation where human smugglers abandoned a 10-year-old boy in the darkness of night on the bank of the Rio Grande. The incident is among many in recent months as the number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the US southern border has grown. “I don’t think they would’ve made it if I hadn’t found them,” the farmer, whose name was not provided, told the congressman. One didn’t have any clothes on,” the farmer told Gonzales, adding that he first called Border Patrol and then reached out to the constable.
“It was about 8:30 in the morning, just driving along and all of a sudden I see them there, beside the bank, here on the river, five little baby girls all by themselves, hungry, crying. Tony Gonzales of Texas he was making a round on the farm when he spotted the children. The children didn’t require medical attention and were transferred to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services Tuesday, according to CBP.Ī farmer who spotted the girls told Republican Rep. If not for our community and law enforcement partners, these little girls could have faced the more than 100-degree temperatures with no help.” “Unfortunately, this happens far too often now. "To locate an NUC’s next of kin, agents must rely on information written on articles of clothing or handwritten notes found among their property."īorder patrol processed all members of the group accordingly.įind the latest on this story on .“It is heartbreaking to find such small children fending for themselves in the middle of nowhere,” Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin L. "Many of the unaccompanied children encountered by Border Patrol are very young and unable to provide names or phone numbers of family members," CBP said. RELATED: Agents rescue smuggled woman from duffel bag in burning car In the first six months of fiscal year 2022, officials said RGC agents encountered over 38,000 noncitizen unaccompanied children. (Credit: DVIDS)Īgents said they discovered a birth certificate on the unaccompanied boy with what appeared to be his father’s information handwritten on the back. The smuggler went back over the fence to Mexico after leaving the youngster. Smuggler Carries Girl Over 30-Foot Border Wall, Then Returns to Mexico AloneĪ seven-year-old girl was abandoned by a smuggler in California after being lifted over the US/Mexico border fence, video released by DVIDS on October 12 shows.