Border patrol agent finds five-week-old baby wrapped in camouflage bag while questioning migrants near Mexico-Arizona border
- A five-week-old baby from Guatemala was nearly run over by a US border guard at ATV near the Mexico-Arizona border on February 16.
- The child was with his 38-year-old mother and was abandoned in the desert shortly before she and other migrants were stopped by agents.
- One of the policemen was walking around the area for other migrants when he almost ran over the baby, which was covered with camouflage.
- US Customs and Border Protection says mother and child are in good health but deported to Mexico
An agent of the US Border Patrol who came across a group of undocumented migrants in Arizona the desert nearly crushed a five-week-old Guatemalan boy as he drove an ATV in search of others traveling with the group.
Tucson agent Mike Jones and the rest of the Ajo station unit approached the group after they illegally crossed from Mexico on February 16, according to Fox News.
Jones told the network that they were interrogating the migrants around 7 pm local time as part of the normal protocol and felt that they were hiding information. So an agent stepped back to animate the national monument to the organ tube cactus.
“The questions we’re asking are, is there anyone else in the group,” Jones said. “Where is everyone else in the group?” No one gave any answers.
A five-week-old Guatemalan boy was nearly run over by a U.S. border agent on Feb. 16 while searching for migrants who crossed from Mexico to Arizona. The individuals were stopped and questioned, but declined to say if there were other people traveling with them. An agent searched the area and stopped for a masked package before spotting the baby.
U.S. Border Patrol agent Mike Jones, who was assigned to Ajo Station in Tucson, is holding a five-week-old migrant boy from Guatemala after he was abandoned by his mother moments after crossing Mexico on February 16.
Jones said that at that moment, one of the agents started following the migrants’ fingerprints on the ATV, deviating from the bundle just in time. He looked at it and found a baby wrapped in a camouflage blanket.
Jones returned to the group with the baby. Eventually, a 38-year-old woman from Guatemala stepped forward, saying she was the mother.
“In fact, I had to ask two more times in a stricter way, in a stricter way, until a woman decided very hesitantly to raise her hand and say that the baby belonged to her,” Jones recalls.
The mother and baby were processed and returned to Mexico via Luquille, Arizona, according to a statement from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
A U.S. Border Patrol agent finds a five-week-old Guatemalan migrant boy wrapped in camouflage after being abandoned by his 38-year-old mother on Feb. 16.
A U.S. border patrol agent is caring for a five-week-old Guatemalan boy who was nearly run over by an officer on board an ATV looking for additional migrants after meeting a group that crossed from Mexico on Feb. 16.
Policy adopted during the former republican President Donald Trump’s administration in March 2020, Title 42 allows CBP to expel migrants under Disease Control Centers and a public health prevention order that considers them a health risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Joe Biden’s administration has continued to enforce the law, but now ensures that unaccompanied children are not subjected to it.
Data for the southwestern border, released by CBP last Friday, show that 78,486 were deported to Mexico in January.
Under Trump, starting in March 2020, nearly 400,000 migrants were denied asylum and asylum at the border and returned to Mexico. The Biden administration has fired more than 1.2 million since he took office.
Total meetings with migrants stopped at the southern border for illegal entry fell by 14% in January, when 153,941 bans were reported by border services, compared with 179,219 in December 2021.
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