“Do not go !” : the moment a 5-year-old boy is abandoned at the US border

“Do not go!”. Without letting go of his teddy bear and waving his hand, a boy yells at the woman who, in the company of a man, has just been abandoned in the night, on the border between Mexico and the United States.

With a bright moon and the Rio Grande practically dry, Last Thursday the night seemed perfect to cross illegally from the Mexican Ciudad Juárez to the American El Paso, heavily guarded by the United States Border Patrol.

The minor arrives with a couple and plays carefree until the woman takes him to the United States.

Frightened, he starts screaming in despair, observes a journalist from the AFP.

“He’s five years old,” the woman whispers to the journalist’s questions before stammering that the child’s parents are in the United States.

Hearing the boy’s screams, the woman briefly returns, but ends up leaving him alone.

“Here here! Nerd! Don’t go, no!”, Shouts the boy, who sometimes remains speechless so that the effort is heard from a natural elevation across the river.

The boy’s screams and cries attract the Border Patrol members who, after a few brief questions, put him in a van. and they take it to the site.

The woman told the AFP that the minor’s parents live in the United States and that the minor is from Mexico.

In border areas, cases of undocumented Mexicans in the United States are known to ask relatives or human traffickers to bring their children to them. to the border area to collect them there.

Remember that the past 1 the video went viral in which, with tears in his eyes, another Nicaraguan boy named Wilton I was walking towards a border patrol and he asked for help because he had been “dumped” near the Rio Grande.

–Can you help me?– implored the minor at the beginning of the recording.

–What happened?– the the agent responded.

–Is that I came with a group of people and they dumped me and I don’t know where they are–, explained the boy who couldn’t hold back his tears.

–You don’t know where they are, have they left you alone?– continued the officer who registered the minor.

–They left me dumped, alone– replied. It was later announced that they had been kidnapped and the minor was released after his uncle paid $ 5,000 for his ransom, although it was not enough to pay for the extortion for his sister, the mother of the minor, the woman was released after publicizing the case in the media.

Following the arrival of Democrat Joe Biden as President of the United States, the number of migrants attempting to cross illegally from Mexico has multiplied. In April alone, 17,171 unaccompanied minors were found.

As part of the more flexible measures taken by Biden, children who arrive unaccompanied remain in the United States, unlike adults who are deported after being detained.

In April, some 178,000 arrests of undocumented migrants were recorded at the border with Mexico, mostly Central Americans, the highest figure in 20 years, according to US officials.

(With partial information from AFP)

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