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WATCH: Smugglers Drop Two Small Children from Borders Walls in California
Border Patrol surveillance cameras captured two separate incidents where human smugglers dangerously dropped small children from border walls. The incidents took place in the El Centro and San Diego Sectors.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz tweeted a surveillance video taken in the San Diego Sector. The video shows a smuggler dropping a six-year-old girl from the border wall. An agent from the Imperial Beach Border Patrol Station caught the little girl after the smuggler dropped her.
The child’s mother also sustained an injury from her illegal crossing over the border wall, Chief Ortiz stated. After dropping the child, the callous human smuggler climbed back over the wall and returned to Mexico.
A similar incident took place this week in the neighboring El Centro Sector. A surveillance video operator captured the images as a human smuggler with a small child on his back is lowered down the border wall, according to information obtained from Border Patrol officials.
Agents responded to the location and cautiously approached the smuggler. The smuggler dropped the child, a seven-year-old girl from El Salvador. He told the girl to walk north, away from the border wall. He then returned to Mexico.
“Agents immediately recognized the dangerous situation created by the human smuggler and decided to wait for the child to be safely on the ground before making their approach,” officials stated. “This decision was made out of caution, believing that the smuggler might panic and drop the child, resulting in serious injury or death given the height of the border wall. Just north of the border wall is the All-American Canal, which posed another physical danger to the child.”
The agents then approached the child and conducted a welfare check before transporting her to the processing center.
“No one, let alone a child of any age or race, should be exposed to the multitude of dangers when crossing illegally into this country,” Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino said in a written statement. “Smugglers will always view children as a commodity to gain a profit, disregarding the safety and well-being of any individual except their own.”
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Migrants Found Locked Inside Fake FedEx Van near Border in California
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of eight migrants locked inside a white delivery van near Niland, Arizona, officials stated. The driver of the van with fake FedEx markings initially represented himself as a delivery man.
El Centro Sector agents patrolling Highway 111 on October 14 observed a while panel van marked with FedEx logos near the immigration checkpoint. Officials stated the driver behaved with signs consistent with that of human smuggling activities.
Agents stopped the van and approached the driver for an interview. The driver reportedly claimed to be a deliveryman, the report states. The agents obtained the driver’s consent to search the cargo area where they found eight people attempting to conceal themselves.
The driver, 37, now faces federal felony charges related to human smuggling.
The agents identified the eight migrants as Mexican nationals not legally present in the U.S. The agents transported the eight migrants to the El Centro Sector processing center. They seized the van used in the failed smuggling attempt.
“Our agents will continue to put pressure on transnational criminal organizations who believe that their illicit activities will not have consequences,” El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino said in a written statement. “This is an example of how smugglers view the humans they smuggle for profit – as if they were nothing more than cargo.”
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face
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