10-year-old found alone at US-Mexico border on Thanksgiving

(NewsNation) — Texas State Troopers rescued a 10-year-old lad aft helium crossed the U.S.-Mexico border connected Thanksgiving Day. The boy, from El Salvador, was ditched by smugglers and near crying successful a distant area, unaware if helium was successful the U.S. oregon Mexico.

The lad said his parent was already successful the U.S. and was turned implicit to Customs and Border Patrol. The lone happening the lad had connected him was a phone, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

“As galore of america are celebrating Thanksgiving with our families & friends. Let’s not hide galore children volition not get to bask the holidays oregon spot their families due to the fact that they person been placed successful a dire concern owed to unfastened borderline conditions, and galore much who are trafficked crossed the confederate borderline are exploited and exposed to a unsafe transgression situation during their travel to the US,” Texas DPS spokesperson Chris Olivarez, said connected X, formerly Twitter.

Earlier this week, Texas DPS troopers encountered a 4-year-old miss who was besides smuggled crossed the borderline successful Maverick County. She excessively was unsocial without her parents. She was carrying lone a scrap of insubstantial with a telephone fig and the sanction “Mama Patty.”

NewsNation’s Jorge Ventura was capable to marque interaction with a pistillate successful South Carolina who claimed to beryllium the girl’s mother. She said she paid a smuggler $4,500 successful Honduras to bring her girl crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

“I recovered a coyote and I paid for them to bring her to me,” she said. “She came alone. It was conscionable the coyote. The past clip I talked to my girl was Saturday, and I haven't heard thing since.”

It's inactive unclear erstwhile the small miss could beryllium released, oregon if she volition beryllium released to her parent successful South Carolina.