Customs and Border Protection ( CBP , by last week released a video from its security cameras showing how two children and their mother descending a rope from a border wall of 30 feet tall . All three are allegedly undocumented Venezuelans and stepped on US soil in Calexico West with the help of other men with whom they have no relationship, according to the authorities.
The descent took place around 3: 07 early Thursday morning 22 of April. The camera operators assigned to the Remote Video Surveillance System (RVSS) at El Centro Station saw that a man himself. rope to lower the border wall , about three miles west of the Calexico West port of entry, according to the CBP press release .
Shortly afterwards, the officers saw another man descend the same rope. However, this adult had a six-year-old , as pointed out by the border agency. Immediately afterwards, came down a woman -which the authorities identify as the mother- with a two-year-old girl .
Gregory K. Bovino, head of the patrol, considered the incident as “human trafficking ”Since, according to the agency, there was no family or friendship relationship between the mother and the children and the men with whom they crossed the wall.
CBP agents sounded the alerts and secured the Border Patrol to capture the suspected smugglers and family at the full. Both the mother and the children are now in the custody of the federal agency at the El Centro Station Processing Center, located in southern California.
The report indicates that, of the two undocumented minors, one was a a two-year-old girl and another a six-year-old boy . The mother has 80. CBP identified all three as undocumented immigrants from Venezuela. Regarding the two adult men, the statement says that one had 22 years and another 31 years, both are also undocumented Venezuelans.
In their report, CBP did not specify what will be the future of the little ones and their mother and it is not known, therefore, if they will receive any protection in the United States. United States or if they will be deported to their country of origin.
The video is released almost three weeks after the Border Patrol found Two migrant brothers abandoned on the Californian side of the border with Mexico. On April 1, another video showed how two Ecuadorian sisters were thrown at also from the top of the border wall , but that time in New Mexico.
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