The excruciating cry of the abandoned child at the American border – Radioinforme 3

A heartbreaking video became known a few days ago showing a child who has just been abandoned at the Mexico-U.S. Border by someone.

In the recording, the little boy begs the person who left him not to leave. The customs officers later retrieve the boy.

The video went viral and Abraham Reza, a reporter for the Millennium Television of Mexico, responsible for covering the southern and northern border, explained in dialogue with Channel 3 that this reality crosses thousands of children.

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“We all heard in 2018 of immigrants leaving their land in search of a better life. The peculiarity is that before they fled insecurity, in a caravan, to avoid being kidnapped on the way since the territory is invaded by delinquency ”, began the journalist.

“Now they are only going to leave their children”, he explained and assured that “the pandemic has exacerbated the situation”.

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“When we talk to the little ones, we see that they are not only fleeing gangs and insecurity, but bad social policies and even climate change, which in Central America causes tropical storms that destroy precarious houses and villages. whole “, explained.

According to data from Unicef, since 2020, a growth of 200% has been reported in children abandoned at the border.

“When parents talk to them, they prefer to leave them alone and stay in a migration center rather than on their land, where insecurity is endemic and where they do not have enough to eat. The migration center becomes a dream,” said said Reza.

And he indicated that this situation worsened with the arrival of Joe Biden to power: “There was a message that was misinterpreted by immigrants, who said he would maintain the Dreamers program that Donald Trump had closed. But that does not mean that the doors are open to all, ”he concluded.

Interview with Miguel Claria.