A heartbreaking video shows a human smuggler coming out of the Colorado River at the Yuma, Arizona – Mexico Sector border with a 1-year-old baby. The smuggler looks around, leaves the baby on the river’s edge, and returns to Mexico. The baby begins to walk around looking for someone.
Luckily the smuggler was caught on video, and a border patrol officer quickly drove over and immediately recovered the baby. He is now safe and being cared for. This baby was lucky; many aren’t.
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U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz shared the video on Twitter on Thursday, saying, “A one-year-old Guatemalan child was abandoned along the Colorado River Monday afternoon by a smuggler who took him across the border and then left him to fend for himself along the water’s edge. Thanks to our agent’s quick response, tragedy was averted.”
So far this fiscal year, Border Patrol agents have encountered 58,003 unaccompanied minors. Agents in the Yuma and El Centro sectors have experienced 2,980 unaccompanied minors combined this fiscal year.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated that the child had been identified, but his identity was kept confidential. The only information given was that the boy was from Guatemala. The child will now be placed in the care of the department of refugee settlement.
Abandoned children at the southern border are not something new. There have been babies abandoned even younger than one year old. After going through CBP custody, children who arrive without parents are transferred to Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) facilities around the country and usually placed into foster care until a permanent placement can be found.
Picture of child safe with an Agent. pic.twitter.com/DZr0VMUNTG
— Chief Raul Ortiz (@USBPChief) March 23, 2023
The Yuma sector has been a hotspot for human smuggling. This week Border Patrol agents shut down a large smuggling operation.
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Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Chair of the Senate Border Management Subcommittee, was among a group of bipartisan members of Congress and the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico who met with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City over the weekend. She urged border security cooperation. She underscored current security measures and the humanitarian crisis on both sides of the border.
Sinema Stated, “Strong border security, healthy cross-border trade, and a fair immigration system all go together. Through cooperation with our Mexican counterparts and needed action by our federal government, we can, and must, achieve all three to keep Arizona families safe, promote a healthy economy, and ensure migrants are treated fairly and humanely.”
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