Border Patrol (CBP) agents encountered a group of undocumented migrants who entered the United States near Eagle Pass, Texas.
A woman in the group informed the agents that her youngest daughter stayed on an island in the Rio Grande between the United States and Mexico.
Agents notified the Eagle Pass Station Fluvial Unit that immediately responded to the area and located a total of 10 undocumented migrants on the island, including the girl. The family, mother and daughter of Venezuelan nationality, was immediately reunited.
“Human traffickers are cold and calculated, they often separate families for their own convenience or to achieve compliance, ”said Acting Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Danley . “Fortunately, our agents acted quickly and were able to locate the girl and reunite her with her mother without incident.”
Fortunately, during this rescue of a group of immigrants, none required medical attention and all were transferred to be processed, reported CBP.
Human smugglers or coyotes who charge thousands of dollars per migrant to take them thousands of miles through Central America and Mexico, promise comfortable bus trips and hotel stays
They also lie to migrants, some of them traveling from as far away as Haiti or Turkey, about and the distance they must travel when They are left at the border between Mexico and the United States , said Border Patrol agents in the El Paso sector.
These human traffickers have abandoned unaccompanied children and to adults in dangerous places, putting their lives at risk.
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