Thread: Boy pulls mother's body across NM desert

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Article Launched: 8/02/2006 12:00 AM

Boy pulls mother's body across NM desert

Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
El Paso Times

A 13-year-old boy dragged his dead mother's body through the desert to find help after she collapsed near Sunland Park last week in one of the most harrowing tales of immigrant distress in recent memory, officials of the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Mexican Consulate in El Paso said.
The boy, Julio Hernández, was reunited this week in Juárez with 21-year-old sister Maribel Hernández, who took him home to Central Mexico, consulate officials said.

The remains of their mother, Adela Hernández, 46, were at still at the Albuquerque morgue Tuesday. She appeared to have died of dehydration or exposure to heat.

Officials of the Sunland Park Police Department said a resident called the police Thursday afternoon about a body behind the Santa Teresa Immediate Care Center at 5055 McNutt. Adela Hernández was pronounced dead at the scene. Border Patrol agents arrived quickly enough to arrest three men who were part of the same smuggling group as the Hernandezes and who were trying to flee.

Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said the group had been "sizable."

ICE investigators in Las Cruces are looking for the group's smugglers, who face enhanced smuggling charges because their actions resulted in a death, officials said. They would not say whether the smugglers are on the Mexican or on the U.S. side of the border.

Mosier said that several people dragged Adela Hernández's body to get help, but Socorro Cordova, spokeswoman for the consulate in El Paso, said Julio was on his own.

"He was all alone carrying her for ways to ask for help," she said. "This is a real tragedy."

Cordova's office took custody of the minor before turning him over to a government shelter for abandoned children in Juárez, where he waited for his sister.

Cordova said Adela Hernández and her son were on their way to meet her husband, who lived in the United States -- possibly in Florida -- as an undocumented immigrant. Cordova said the mother and son did not plan on staying in the United States but on talking the husband into returning to Mexico.

Louie Gilot may be reached at lgilot@elpasotimes.com; 546-6131.

This should be laid at the feet of our President and our Congress for holding out the amnesty stick instead of the carrot stick, and fueling the rise of the Illegals trying make it over our borders to get in on the amnesty deal our Congress and Our President have put forth to the illegal immigrants! Not to mention the self-accountability to the illegals theirselves who loose all common sense in trying to cross the borders in the the heat wave we are now having.

Cordova said Adela Hernández and her son were on their way to meet her husband, who lived in the United States -- possibly in Florida -- as an undocumented immigrant. Cordova said the mother and son did not plan on staying in the United States but on talking the husband into returning to Mexico.

Uh huh, sure they were....i bet they also can get you a great deal on some of that oceanfront property in Arizona.....

Build the fence NOW!

nittygritty wrote:

This should be laid at the feet of our President and our Congress for holding out the amnesty stick instead of the carrot stick, and fueling the rise of the Illegals trying make it over our borders to get in on the amnesty deal our Congress and Our President have put forth to the illegal immigrants!

You're absolutely right! President Bush and his administration are 100% responsible for any and all illegal immigrant deaths that are taking place. Secure the borders, bust the employers, and remove all rumors, debate, and gossip of an amnesty and premature guest worker program. Also, lets step up the business raids and deport as many illegal immigrants as humanly possible. We have no hope of convincing Bush of the errors of his ways, but we still have a glimmer of hope sitting in the House - let's keep working on them!

MW, well said.

You know what jumped out at me was the fact that the other people in this l

Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said the group had been "sizable."

sizable group did NOTHING to help this boy.

Oh yea, Shrub, let's talk about community, let's talk about family values.

Mosier said that several people dragged Adela Hernández's body to get help, but Socorro Cordova, spokeswoman for the consulate in El Paso, said Julio was on his own.

"He was all alone carrying her for ways to ask for help," she said. "This is a real tragedy."

These are such humanitarian people, yada, yada, yada!!! Leave a 13 year old boy to try and help his mother. Disgusting animals!!!!!!

This makes me so mad , I just want to spit!!!