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(NewsNation) — Just this week, dozens of children were recovered unsocial astatine the U.S.-Mexico border, including a 10-year-old boy who crossed the U.S.-Mexico borderline connected Thanksgiving Day and a 4-year-old miss from Honduras recovered by officials.
According to Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez, much than 100 unaccompanied children person encountered agents connected the nation's confederate borderline since Sunday, Nov. 24.
"I privation the American radical to spot the impacts of this existent borderline concern that we've been successful for the past 3 positive years, and however it impacts unaccompanied children are coming crossed that border," Olivarez told “NewsNation Prime."
According to Olivarez, the children they've encountered ranged from 2 years aged to 17 years old.
The unnamed 4-year-old miss had a enactment with her erstwhile she encountered agents, with a telephone fig and archetypal name. Her parent told NewsNation she is already successful the U.S. and said she near her kid successful the hands of transgression smugglers successful Honduras and Mexico successful hopes of being reunited.
“I recovered a coyote and I paid for them to bring her to me,” the pistillate 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 they told maine the coyote had already handed her implicit to different coyote, but I don’t cognize thing other astir her.”
It's "all excessively common," Olivarez explained, adding that helium fears the influx of unaccompanied minors volition lone get worse.
"It truly shows the interior workings of however these criminals are operating, besides however immoderate of these household members, if they are household members successful fact, however they adjacent let their kid to marque this long, precarious travel to United States astatine the hands of criminals," helium added.
Olivarez pointed to "whatever agreement" the Biden medication made with Mexico to get its borderline crossings numbers down, saying: "There is nary information mechanisms. There is nary protocols successful spot to support unaccompanied children."
The 4-year-old's parent shared photos of her girl with NewsNation.
The photos, sent to the parent by a quality smuggler portion her girl was inactive successful Mexico, amusement much children successful the background.
The parent tells NewsNation that her girl is inactive nether U.S. migration custody and it’s unclear if oregon erstwhile she volition beryllium released to her successful South Carolina.
