Border Patrol agents discover second five-year-old migrant girl in just two days: Found wandering in Texas with three other kids after crossing from Mexico without parents
- Two five-year-old girls from Honduras and Guatemala have been found by border agents in US Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector this week
- A five-year-old girl from Honduras crossed the border with three other children on Thursday
- A Guatemalan five-year-old girl was stopped near the Rio Grande on Tuesday and told agents she had crossed the river alone
- At total of 38,639 encounters with unaccompanied children have been registered during the first three months of fiscal year 2022
A second five-year-old migrant girl from Central America was discovered by U.S. Border Patrol in just two days, after she and three other children crossed the Southern border without their parents this week.
The latest border incident was registered by the agency’s Del Rio Sector in Texas when officers encountered a five-year-old girl from Honduras on Thursday after she entered the country with three other children, the oldest being a 16-year-old.
The nationalities of the other three kids were not released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
On Tuesday, Del Rio Sector border agents had spotted a five-year-old girl from Guatemala walking after had crossed the Rio Grande by herself.
‘This is not OK!’ the sector said on a Facebook post that showed the child standing in front of a Border Patrol vehicle.
The Del Rio Sector did not indicate if any of the migrant children’s parents are presently in the United States or if a family member had been contacted.
DailyMail.com reached out to CBP for comment.
The shocking but not unusual findings of migrant children being sent across the border without their parents represents many of the issues that remained unsolved at the Southern border after the administration of President Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.
A Honduran five-year-old girl was found by border patrol agents Thursday in Texas. The child was among four children who were encountered together by officers assigned to US Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector
This five-year-old girl from Guatemala told U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Del Rio Sector that she cross from Mexico to Texas on Tuesday by herself via the Rio Grande
At least 38,639 encounters with unaccompanied children have been registered during the first three months of fiscal year 2022 after 126,739 interdictions were reported in Biden’s first eight months in office during fiscal year 2021.
Del Rio Sector agents, who are responsible for 53,063-square-miles of Texas in 47 counties and 245 miles along the Rio Grande, have reported 91,651 encounters with migrants stopped for unlawful border entry out of the 518,360 interdictions that have been registered in the first three months of fiscal year 2022.
During that stretch, Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officers reported 2,280 encounters with unaccompanied minors.
The Rio Grande Sector, whose 137,239 overall encounters lead CBP’s stats so far in fiscal year 2022, was also top among the agency’s nine border patrol sectors with 21,069 interdictions of migrant children between October 2021 and December 2022.
Agency numbers for January 2022 are due sometime over the next two weeks.
A total of 38,639 encounters with unaccompanied children have been registered during the first three months of fiscal year 2022 after 126,739 interdictions were reported in President Joe Biden’s first eight months in office during fiscal year 2021
CBP reported 518,360 encounters with undocumented migrants who were stopped by U.S. Border Patrol agents for unlawful crossing of the United States-Mexico border between October 2021 and December 2021
The Biden administration announced this week a change in strategy with how it detains unlawful adult border-crossers.
A 120-day pilot program will place single adult migrants under house arrest at locations in the United States as a cheaper alternatives to immigration detention.
The plan, revealed Tuesday, indicated that 100 to 200 single adults would be sent to sites in Baltimore and Houston.
The so-called ‘home curfew’ pilot will cost $6-8 per day for each enrollee, far less than the $142 daily cost of immigration detention.
The enrollees will generally be required to remain at home from 8 p.m. until 8 a.m., with exceptions for job schedules for those with work authorization or extraordinary circumstances.
Current alternatives to detention, such as ankle bracelets and phone monitoring, require enrollees to notify case managers if they are leaving the state or traveling, but do not mandate home confinement, the Department of Homeland Security official said.