The photo demonstrates the miraculous rescue of 7-year-old boy from Honduras who nearly drowned in the Rio Grande when he tried to cross the border.
The employee of a border service of the USA pulled the little boy out of the river that separates Mexico and the United States. Four adults and 4 other children also helped out after they tried to cross the river on an inflatable children’s pools near Eagle Pass in Texas.
Pools fell into the water, which people swallowed the powerful stream of water. It is noted that the flow of the river is particularly strong between Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras in Mexico.
Incredible photos of a Border Patrol agent saving a 7-year-old Honduran boy from drowning in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass on Friday https://t.co/2JSeG6IYzZ h/t @Perla_Trevizo pic.twitter.com/jXKNH4NxlM
— Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) May 15, 2019
The staff of border Eagle Pass South Station arrested a 27-year-old man from Honduras for illegal border crossing. He said that his ship capsized in the water, and his young son and nephew were washed away, along with another child and an adult man. The agents were able to find the wife of the man and his eldest son frozen, but alive. Another man and his 13-year-old son also was found nearby. The children were taken to the hospital for inspection.
Agent Raul Ortiz said, «We are dealing with senseless tragedy. Men and women of the border service of the United States is doing everything possible to prevent such incidents. And yet, heartless smugglers continue to endanger the lives of migrants for financial gain».
Migrants often attempt to cross the river, mainly in fragile vessels, and the flow of water is here very rapid.
Border service conducted 99 thousand arrests on the southern border in April. Most detainees were adults and children from Central America, who probably hoped for asylum in the United States.
«A 7-year-old boy was struggling in the current. He screamed. His head went underwater.»
The story behind @SilviaElenaFF and @photodado’s more harrowing coverage of a rescue on the Rio Grande: https://t.co/t1EqGLwWvK pic.twitter.com/dDLf1QKLjA
— Marina Riker (@marinastarleaf) May 15, 2019
During the past fiscal year a rescue team from customs and border protection responded to more than 4,300 urgent calls. Recorded 283 fatalities, including those who drowned or died in the wilderness.
Last month, the number of border crossings has reached its highest level in 12 years. Agents arrested more than 103 thousand people, including 53 thousand, which was traveling families.
Representatives of the Ministry of internal security said that the system barely copes with the pressure of families who need child care in contrast to those people whom the officers used to see crossing the border, that is, single men from Mexico.
So the White house asked Congress on an additional $4.5 billion funding for the border.
But Democrats are afraid to give the administration more money, especially after the long forced suspension of work of government in history, when Donald trump demanded the funding of the wall on the border.
