Border agents rescue two unauthorized immigrants with rattlesnake bites

By Lynn Brezosky
Published 06:50 p.m., Tuesday, June 26, 2012

BROWNSVILLE — U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued two unauthorized immigrants from Guatemala who had been bitten by a rattlesnake on a ranch near Kingsville, Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.

The agents came across the men early Tuesday morning and took them to the emergency room at Christus Spohn Hospital Kleberg in Kingsville.

Since the fiscal year began in October, Rio Grande Valley sector agents have rescued nearly 200 people and found the remains of 64. Rescues often escalate in the summer, when agents come across or are called by unauthorized immigrants suffering from heat exhaustion.

lbrezosky@express-news.net

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