Border Patrol agents rescue lost child
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January 21, 2009 - 7:18 AM
Jared Taylor
The Monitor
McALLEN -- Local U.S. Border Patrol agents found a lost 2-year-old girl on Saturday.

Agents received information late Friday night about a lost child in the brush south of U.S. Highway 83, west of La Joya.

Agents used night vision equipment to survey the thick brush near the border until they found a small girl about 1 a.m. Saturday in a cemetary south of U.S. 83, near the Havana subdivision.

Agents do not know the girl's identity or citizenship. She is believed to be about two years old.

"She's doing fine," said Dan Doty, a local Border Patrol spokesman. "She is more than likely undocumented, so we're trying to locate her parents."

The toddler was turned over to Child Protective Services until her a parent or guardian can be located.

McAllen-based Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations pilots responded to the area to look for the girl.

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