Three migrants were saved by Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents after they passed out from heat exhaustion during a rail smuggling incident close to Uvalde, Texas. All three migrants were saved by the agents.
Agents from the Uvalde Station Border Patrol got a call asking for help with migrants who were being smuggled into tiny railway compartments. According to a tweet from Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jason Owens, when agents arrived, they discovered three unconscious migrants concealed in the compartments.
EMS personnel swiftly came and assisted in saving the lives of the three migrants who were unwell from the heat.
Uvalde agents responded to a call for assistance near a train siding.
— Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens (@USBPChiefDRT) July 13, 2022
Subjects were hidden in small train compartments.
3 of them were found unresponsive. EMS quickly arrived, & luckily no one lost their lives.
Do Not put yourself in this situation. Your life is worth more! pic.twitter.com/a5pZE3YbpP
In the Del Rio Sector, life-saving rescues of migrants are frequent throughout the hot summer months. Agents late last week prevented the death of another immigrant who was from heat exhaustion on a property close to Brackettville, Texas.
The agents started administering emergency cooling techniques and gave the migrant IV fluids to rehydrate him. The nationality of the immigrant was not disclosed by Chief Owens.
When an EMS team came, they took the migrant to a hospital for assessment and care.
This week, Owens tweeted a warning to migrants about the risks of being smuggled into the overworked Border Patrol sector during the hottest part of the summer in West Texas.
According to a US Customs and Border Protection report, from October 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022, Border Patrol agents saved a record-breaking 14,278 migrants. The number of rescues far outnumbers the 12,833 migrant rescues that were performed in FY21. There are still four months in the current fiscal year.
