The minor was thrown at a height of 18 feet. The Border Patrol reported that fortunately he was not injured and that he was accompanied by his father, originally from Ghana.
The security camera of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) caught a human trafficker while throwing a two-year-old boy from the border wall between Mexico and the United States, in the sector of San Diego, California.
The images have caused a stir due to the risk in which the minor’s life was put when he was thrown at a height of 18 feet. Border Patrol Chief Agent Aaron M. Heitke posted the video on his Twitter account where he noted that fortunately the minor was unharmed.
The incident was recorded on Sunday night. Heitke indicated that the boy was thrown into the arms of his father who was on the side of California with a group of people seeking to enter the United States illegally.
“This event could have been catastrophic. Fortunately, the child was not injured,” the police source said.
According to the investigations, both the father and the child are citizens of Ghana without legal status within the United States.
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On March 31, the Office of Customs and Border Protection released another video, captured by its security cameras, in which two girls aged 3 and 5, mercilessly are released by “coyotes” from from above the barrier in the New Mexico sector.
In the video you can see a person sitting on the wall and trying to lower the minors to the ground; but, due to the height, it ends up letting them go in the last section. The two girls, of Ecuadorian origin, fall to the ground with a strong impact, but it is observed that they manage to get up and ask for help from the adults who have abandoned them in the middle of the desert.
Border agents immediately responded to the scene. The minors were taken to a hostel waiting to be able to meet with their parents in New York, Ecuadorian diplomats reported.
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The case had international repercussions. The White House was “alarmed” by the case and called on undocumented people to avoid getting into the hands of coyotes who “abuse” them.
“Any of us who have seen the video are incredibly alarmed by these things that human traffickers do,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
And he reiterated: “We want to send a clear message to the region that this is not the time to come, they should not send their children on this treacherous journey, with traffickers abusing the vulnerabilities of these communities.”