The Nicaraguan boy is being held at a Donna detention center in Texas, where he underwent medical examinations, the Border Patrol reported. Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo said it was possible to locate the child’s father.
This week, a video of a ten-year-old boy calling for help from the US Border Patrol circulated on social media. UU. After being abandoned by a group of migrants on the border with Mexico. The minor’s family recognized him and began arrangements for his repatriation.
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Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo told official media that his government is making arrangements with Mexico and the United States to locate him and his mother, as the minor was traveling with his mother, Meyling Obregón, on Parador is unknown. Murillo reported that this Friday they sent the request to Interpol to find the whereabouts of both. The Nicaraguan boy is being held at a Donna detention center in Texas, where he underwent medical examinations, the Border Patrol reported.
The boy was on a rural route near La Grua, 50 miles west of McCallen. In a statement, the Patrol explained that the ten-year-old boy “was distressed and crying” because on waking he realized that the group of migrants he was traveling with “had abandoned him”. The minor was taken to the Border Patrol Detention Center in Donna and authorities contacted the family, according to KTSA television station in San Antonio.
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Murrillo reported to the local press that it was possible to locate the father of the minor who said that on February 7 his wife along with his son left the country for the US. UU. “On April 7, he learned from the news that the boy had been rescued by Migration and thought it was the mother who left him to be rescued. Our police are making arrangements to locate Meyling,” he said. the vice president, according to the newspaper La Prensa de Nicaragua.
The child’s uncle, Misael Obregón, who resides in the United States, told a Nicaraguan digital medium that his relatives had been rejected at the border and deported to Mexico. Already back in Mexico, Misael said, mother and son were abducted by coyotes who, after a negotiation, released only the child.
In recent statements to US media, Brian Hastings, head of the border patrol in the Rio Grande Valley, has said he has evidence that many families separate voluntarily and send only children to try to cross again, after an initial expulsion. . Many migrants, he noted, are driven “sometimes by the excitement and mirage of seeking better living conditions because the world is difficult, more so with this pandemic.”