A homeless boy at the U.S.-Mexico border cries: They left me behind, I was so scared

The issue of the U.S.-Mexico border is a major challenge for the Biden administration. It was previously reported that two Ecuadorian girls, ages 3 and 5, were thrown into a 14-foot wall at the southern border of New Mexico, and now a heartbreaking video has been circulated on the Internet of a boy who was abandoned in the southern Texas desert after crossing the border illegally.

According to the Daily Mail, a boy wandering alone in the Texas desert near the U.S.-Mexico border is shown in the film with red eyes crying as he approaches a U.S. Border Patrol officer and says in Spanish, “I came with a group of people and they left me behind and I don’t know where they are. “

The patrolman asked him back if he had been instructed to “come and get help,” and the boy complained in tears of terror, “No, I came because if I didn’t, where else would I go? Someone could hold me, kidnap me, I’m scared.”

The report noted that the boy is just one of hundreds of children crossing the border every day, the U.S. government data released last week showed that 171,000 immigrants were arrested at the border in March 2021, the highest number of arrests in a single month in 20 years, including about 19,000 unaccompanied street children and 53,000 family members who crossed the border together. April 2000 had reached a single-month arrest The record of more than 180,000 illegal immigrants in a single month was reached in April 2000, and soon after President Biden took office, he was faced with a growing humanitarian challenge.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection data show that border concerns have risen for 10 consecutive months, and the Biden administration has faced a surge in immigration over the past two months. Authorities did not release the boy’s age and nationality, but the boy entered the U.S. illegally and spent the night hiking through the Rio Grande Valley region before finally meeting a patrolman just after his shift in eastern Rio Grande City on April 1, presumably because the boy’s parents sent him to the U.S. alone.