作者:Chris Boyette, Juliana Gonzalez和David Williams, CNN –美国海关和边境保护局(CBP)在一份新闻稿中表示，边境警卫救出了两名年轻的厄瓜多尔姐妹，此前她们被指控是人贩子在新墨西哥州沙漠中把她们扔过4米高的边境围栏。边境巡逻队的摄像头拍摄的视频显示[…]
边境巡逻队的视频显示，年幼的孩子被扔过14英尺高的边境围栏进入美国首次出现在甲板和围栏每日.
By Chris Boyette, Juliana Gonzalez and David Williams, CNN
(CNN) – Border guards rescued two young Ecuadorian sisters after alleged people smugglers dropped them over a 4-meter-high border fence in the New Mexico desert, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a press release.
The video from a Border Patrol camera shows the children aged 3 and 5 were dropped on the U.S. side of the barrier Tuesday night, according to the agency.
US officials are trying to cope with the influx of migrants into the country, and a CBP spokeswoman said more than 300 agents are deployed along the border with Mexico. This includes some agents that were moved earlier this year.
The night vision footage shows a person the CBP describes as a people smuggler climbing a section of the border fence and lowering a child by the side of the barrier before dropping them the rest of the way to the ground.
When the first child stood up, the person repeated the process and dropped another child onto the US side of the fence. They appeared to be several feet off the ground when they were dropped.
“Immediately after both children landed on the ground, two smugglers fled the area, leaving the helpless little girls on the north side of the international border,” the CBP said.
A border guard operating the camera in Santa Teresa, New Mexico saw the children being dropped off and alerted other agents in the area to their location.
The children were both attentive when the responding agents made contact and provided assistance before they were taken to hospital “as a precaution and for further investigation,” the statement said.
The incident occurred in a remote area west of the mountain. Cristo Rey – a 29 foot tall limestone statue of Jesus near El Paso, Texas, according to the press release.
The girls were evacuated from the hospital and released and are now in border protection custody until they can be moved elsewhere by the U.S. Department of Health, the release said.
CBP El Paso Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez said she was “appalled” by what she saw.
“Without the vigilance of our agents using mobile technologies, these two siblings would have been exposed to the harsh elements of the desert environment for hours at a tender age,” Chavez said in a statement.
Homeland Security Minister Alejandro Mayorkas also condemned smuggling in a statement released on Wednesday.
“The inhumane way smugglers abuse children while profiting from parenting despair is criminal and morally reprehensible. As recently as that month, a young girl died of drowning, a six month old was thrown into the river, and two young children were left out of a wall and left alone in the desert. There is no doubt that children are exceptionally vulnerable in the hands of smugglers. There is a great risk that they will be exploited and injured. I applaud our heroic border guards who have saved lives this week and every week as they risk their own lives for the good of the country, “he said.
According to the government, around 17,650 unaccompanied migrant children were in US government custody as of Sunday, including 5,767 in CBP custody.
The CNN Wire
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