Toddler Swept Away While Crossing Rio Grande River
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Toddler Swept Away While Crossing Rio Grande River
Boy Was Among Group Of Hondurans Trying To Enter U.S.
POSTED: 8:44 am CST March 2, 2005
UPDATED: 10:30 am CST March 2, 2005
EAGLE PASS, Texas -- U.S. and Mexican authorities searched Tuesday for an 18-month-old boy who fell into the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass as he and five other people, including his mother, were trying to enter through the border city.
U.S. Border Patrol officials in Eagle Pass told KSAT 12 News that agents heard a scream from a woman in a cane field about a child.
An air boat searches the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass for a missing Honduran boy believed to have drowned.
Border Patrol officials said one of the men in the group who was holding on to the child while they crossed the river released his grip "because the current was so swift."
"If you can't get to them in a couple of minutes, and they're not hanging on to something, there's not much you can do except to try and find them," said John Borham, who conducted a search by air boat.
A 3-year-old girl and the boy's mother were also in the group, which is believed to have been dropped off by human smugglers on the river banks.
Border Patrol officials said the Eagle Pass area has seen a 300 percent increase in illegal immigrants, most of them Central Americans, converging in the area in recent years.
Since there is no detention facility and immigrants are often released on their own recognizance, many immigrants see Eagle Pass as a prime area for crossing into the United States, Border Patrol officials said.
Toddler Swept Away While Crossing Rio Grande River
http://www.ksat.com/news/4245744/detail.html
Toddler Swept Away While Crossing Rio Grande River
Boy Was Among Group Of Hondurans Trying To Enter U.S.
POSTED: 8:44 am CST March 2, 2005
UPDATED: 10:30 am CST March 2, 2005
EAGLE PASS, Texas -- U.S. and Mexican authorities searched Tuesday for an 18-month-old boy who fell into the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass as he and five other people, including his mother, were trying to enter through the border city.
U.S. Border Patrol officials in Eagle Pass told KSAT 12 News that agents heard a scream from a woman in a cane field about a child.
An air boat searches the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass for a missing Honduran boy believed to have drowned.
Border Patrol officials said one of the men in the group who was holding on to the child while they crossed the river released his grip "because the current was so swift."
"If you can't get to them in a couple of minutes, and they're not hanging on to something, there's not much you can do except to try and find them," said John Borham, who conducted a search by air boat.
A 3-year-old girl and the boy's mother were also in the group, which is believed to have been dropped off by human smugglers on the river banks.
Border Patrol officials said the Eagle Pass area has seen a 300 percent increase in illegal immigrants, most of them Central Americans, converging in the area in recent years.
Since there is no detention facility and immigrants are often released on their own recognizance, many immigrants see Eagle Pass as a prime area for crossing into the United States, Border Patrol officials said.
