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Close to 200 migrants were caught by Border Patrol near a small town in the state of Texas, according to Fox News.
Kamala Harris continues to avoid holding a press conference regarding her duties to address the migration crisis at the southern border.
A video of a crying boy that was abandoned in the Texas desert has emerged.
“Can you help me? It is that I was coming with a group and they abandoned me and I do not know where they are at,” the child asked the Border PAtrol.
“You do not know where they are at? They left you alone?” the agent asked.
“Of course, they abandoned me,” the child responded, while sobbing.
Border Patrol took the young boy to a nearby shelter.
Close to where the video had been filmed, Border Patrol agents apprehended around 200 migrants in La Joya.
WATCH: Border Report was in La Joya, Texas, early this morning as the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 200 undocumented immigrants before the sun came up, something agents say is a daily occurrence in South Texas. https://t.co/NUiph6rfub
— Border Report (@BorderReportcom) April 6, 2021
“We have been affected very much by the hurricanes and we want a normal life. We really have nothing,” said Cassie Escalante, a 30-year-old mother who made the perilous journey from Nicaragua with her 9-year-old daughter.
“In Nicaragua, the schooling for children does not offer a good education. It is a country where life is not sure,” she said.
“I want a better opportunity for my family for my children and to work,” Juan Ramon Soto, a Honduran holding an 18-month-old boy said.
From Fox News:
At the park where they were waiting to board buses from Homeland Security, colored and numbered wristbands reportedly were found on the ground. Cartels and human traffickers operating in Mexico use those to organize and group the migrants before they cross into the U.S., Border Report added.
Some of those in La Joya, which is west of McAllen, were photographed huddling in blankets that a Border Patrol agent had passed out. Others, who were unaccompanied minors, were lined up in order of height after being asked their ages and home counties, according to Border Report.
— Advertisement — Others who spoke to Border Report said they crossed the Rio Grande on old tires and rafts.
