WPBN: A number of kids were discovered unaccompanied at the U.S.-Mexico border only this week, including a 4-year-old Honduran girl and a 10-year-old boy who entered the country on Thanksgiving Day.
Since Sunday, Nov. 24, more than 100 unaccompanied minors have run into agents on the country’s southern border, according to Lt. Chris Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
“I want the American people to see the impacts of this current border situation that we’ve been in for the last three plus years, and how it impacts unaccompanied children are coming across that border,” Olivarez stated.
Olivarez claims that the youngsters they have come into contact with have ages ranging from two to seventeen.
When the anonymous 4-year-old kid came into contact with agents, she was carrying a note that contained her first name and phone number. She is already in the United States, according to her mother, who told NewsNation that she left her child in the care of illegal smugglers in Mexico and Honduras in the hopes of reuniting with her.
“I found a coyote and I paid for them to bring her to me,” the woman stateed. “She came alone. It was just the coyote. The last time I talked to my daughter was Saturday, and I haven’t heard anything since they told me the coyote had already handed her over to another coyote, but I don’t know anything else about her.”
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Olivarez described it as “all too common,” and he expressed his concern that the number of unaccompanied youngsters entering the country will only increase.
