Cartel-connected human smugglers abandoned a ten-year-old girl and her mother in the California desert and left them to die. Agents found the mother’s body just south of the border wall and managed to save her daughter.
El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino posted a report on social media announcing the recovery of a deceased Ecuadorian woman and the rescue of her ten-year-old daughter.
Bovino wrote that the callous human smugglers abandoned the woman who was in distress in the summer heat along with her daughter. When agents arrived, they found the woman died from exposure to the deadly heat of the California desert summer.
Agents saved the young girl who was about to face the same fate as her mother, Bovino reported.
During Fiscal Year 22, the latest information available on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website, Border Patrol agents recovered the bodies or remains of 635 migrants. This is more than three times the number recovered during FY 20, President Donald Trump’s last full year in office. During FY 21 agents recovered 448 deceased migrants — twice Tump’s final year.
Statistics for FY 23 are not yet available on the CBP website.
Most of the FY 22 decedents died from exposure to extreme heat or cold, the report states. The second largest number of deaths were caused by drownings.
These numbers do not include decedent migrant recoveries on the Mexican side of the border, or those recovered by non-Border Patrol law enforcement agencies.
Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday morning talk show. He also serves as president of Blue Wonder Gun Care Products.
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