After someone abandoned a two-year-old migrant on an island in the middle of the Rio Grande, Eagle Pass Border Patrol agents rescued him. The boy was rescued by the agents and eventually restored to his family who had traveled into Texas.
Agent Jason D. Owens of the Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol posted a video of agents in Eagle Pass rescuing a two-year-old kid who had been abandoned on an island in the middle of the Rio Grande. The chief refused to say who abandoned the young child on an island in the midst of a river where many had perished in recent weeks.
An Eagle Pass Riverine Unit agent is seen in the video pulling the little child from an island in the river that separates Texas and Mexico. The agents then notice a group of migrants gathered near the riverbank on the US side of the Rio Grande. The agents confirmed that the youngster was the son of one of the women in the group, and the mother and child were reunited.
Del Rio Sector agents retrieved the corpses of eight migrants who drowned in the Rio Grande during a two-day span during Memorial Day Weekend. The drownings happened in two different occurrences.
A source working under the auspices of the United States According to Customs and Border Protection, the number of deaths in the river within such a short period of time is frighteningly high. Agents in the Eagle Pass area of operation are recovering at least one drowning every day, according to the source.
