Thread: New Relief Effort Records First Saved Migrant Lives in South Texas

New Relief Effort Records First Saved Migrant Lives in South Texas

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Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector2 Aug 201840A new program aimed at saving the lives of lost migrants recorded its first saves this week. The program places unique signs at key locations instructing lost migrants to call 911 for assistance. The calls help Border Patrol agents save time in the rescue and apprehension of those lost.

Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande Valley Sector reported their first lives saved from a program launched recently where signs are placed on ranches where migrants are frequently abandoned by smugglers without food or water. The signs instruct the lost to call 911 for assistance when they are in distress. The signs also are numbered. The number allows agents to quickly learn the exact coordinates of the sign and quickly move in to rescue and apprehend the illegal immigrants, according to Rio Grande Valley Sector officials.

Emergency signs placed in key locations by the Missing Migrants Project carry a unique number that identifies the geographic coordinates of the sign’s location. (Photo: Missing Migrant Project)

Two Honduran migrants became the first to be rescued under the new program on July 31, officials stated. The Honduran brothers, ages 25 and 27, became lost on a ranch in Brooks County after being abandoned by human smugglers with no food or water. The 100-degree heat during the day had taken its toll on the brothers and they realized they were in trouble. Nighttime temperatures were still well into the 90s when the duo came across one of the new signs. One of the brothers called 911, as advised by the sign, and requested help.


The 911 dispatcher looked up the sign’s location with the number provided and quickly contacted Falfurrias Station Border Patrol agents to rescue the two men. Because of the information contained on the sign, the agents were able to find the two men within an hour of the call for help. Agents provided water to the two Honduran nationals and determined they needed no further medical assistance.


The agents transported the two illegal immigrants to the Falfurrias Station for processing.


“These are exactly the sorts of stories we were hoping to be able to tell when we started posting these signs last month,” Chief Patrol Agent Manuel Padilla, Jr. said in a written statement. “We’re placing the signs almost as fast as we can get them made, and we have a lot of ground yet to cover, but this is certainly an encouraging start.”


Migrants frequently become lost in Brooks County as cartel-connected human smugglers attempt to march them around the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint located there. When a migrant becomes injured, dehydrated, weak, or otherwise unable to keep up with he group, the smugglers will simply abandon them without food or water. This results in numerous deaths in this county. Brooks County, located 80 miles from the Mexican border in South Texas, frequently leads the nation in the number of deceased migrants.


This year, the deaths of illegal immigrants in this county are up by 23 percent over last year, Brooks County Sheriff Benny Martinez told Breitbart Texas on Wednesday.


“We have recovered the bodies or skeletal remains of 34 people this year who died in our county after being abandoned by these ruthless human smugglers,” the sheriff said.


The Missing Migrant Project reports that 202 died after illegally entering the U.S. this year. The increasing rate of migrant deaths is quickly approaching record-setting levels. During the same period last year, 219 migrants’ remains had been recovered — 214 in 2016. This compared to only 104 in 2015 and 87 in 2014.


Border Patrol officials said these signs are important because other countries use different emergency call numbers. In Honduras, where these two brothers came from, residents have three different emergency numbers (195 or 378654 for EMS, 198 for fire, and 119 for police).


The signs also reduce the time required to prosecute rescue operations and reduce the need for the expense for helicopter aircrew support.

https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/08/02/new-relief-effort-records-first-saved-migrant-lives-in-south-texas/

Our government can't build a Wall to keep them out, but they can give them great assistance to get in.

Cut off ALL foreign aid to Mexico and Central America to pay for this and build that damn WALL.

Our taxpayer money should not be paying for this INVASION of our country!

Originally Posted by Beezer

Cut off ALL foreign aid to Mexico and Central America to pay for this and build that damn WALL.

Our taxpayer money should not be paying for this INVASION of our country!

YES, that's Judy's Plan B!! Cut off all aid and all trade with these stupid countries with these stupid people who continue to enter our country illegally!! Their home countries will stop this shit on their end if Trump would just announce Plan B. He has the authority in the name of national security to do this. When it stops, you can resume normal relations and trade.

Judy's Plan B:

Tell all these countries, if your citizens continue to enter our country illegally, then your country will have no aid from or trade with the United States. Period.


And guess what? Plan B doesn't cost the US one dime. In fact it will be the only free thing the United States ever got from "free trade". Just do it!

Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande Valley Sector reported their first lives saved from a program launched recently where signs are placed on ranches where migrants are frequently abandoned by smugglers without food or water. The signs instruct the lost to call 911 for assistance when they are in distress. The signs also are numbered. The number allows agents to quickly learn the exact coordinates of the sign and quickly move in to rescue and apprehend the illegal immigrants, according to Rio Grande Valley Sector officials.

Not surprising that our federal government has found another way to aid and abet illegal immigration into our country. So now all the coyotes and human smugglers have to do is deliver their package (illegal aliens) to one of these signs and they've completed their contract to their client. Absolutely ridiculous that our own government is complicit in this!

Originally Posted by Judy

YES, that's Judy's Plan B!! Cut off all aid and all trade with these stupid countries with these stupid people who continue to enter our country illegally!! Their home countries will stop this shit on their end if Trump would just announce Plan B. He has the authority in the name of national security to do this. When it stops, you can resume normal relations and trade.

Judy's Plan B:

Tell all these countries, if your citizens continue to enter our country illegally, then your country will have no aid from or trade with the United States. Period.


And guess what? Plan B doesn't cost the US one dime. In fact it will be the only free thing the United States ever got from "free trade". Just do it!

Your plan to sanction all countries that illegal aliens come from is ill-conceived and unreasonable. For example, if I were to leave the United States on my own and commit a crime in Mexico, I own sole responsibility for that crime and any actions leading up to it, not my family, not the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, not Mickey Mouse, and certainly not the country of my origin. Blaming an entire country on the individual actions of its citizenry is not only irresponsible, it could be downright dangerous to the well-being of Americans who travel outside our country for business, vacation, education, family visits, etc.

My Plan B will work and work fast, plus it won't cost US a dime. I guess that's why you're opposed to it. Strange!!

Originally Posted by Judy

My Plan B will work and work fast, plus it won't cost US a dime. I guess that's why you're opposed to it. Strange!!

IMO, your plan is not really a plan, it's an unworkable fantasy that will never happen, so why suggest it?

Because it will work, work fast and won't cost US a dime.

Originally Posted by Judy

My Plan B will work and work fast, plus it won't cost US a dime. I guess that's why you're opposed to it. Strange!!

Judy, if you are so convinced your Plan B will work and work fast, and not cost the US a dime, then why are you not mad as heck at Trump for not using it?