{"id":116831,"date":"2021-04-02T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116831"},"modified":"2021-04-02T10:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T02:02:32","slug":"illegal-migrants-two-children-dropped-over-us-mexico-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116831","title":{"rendered":"Illegal migrants: Two children dropped over US-Mexico border wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Two-children-dropped-over-US-Mexico-border-wall.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Two-children-dropped-over-US-Mexico-border-wall.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Two small Ecuadoran girls, three and five years old, were hoisted over and dropped from the top of a 14-foot wall marking the US-Mexican border in the middle of the night before being picked up by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn Tuesday evening, a Santa Teresa agent utilizing camera technology<br>observed a smuggler dropping two young children from the top of the<br>approximately 14-foot-high (four-meter-high) border barrier,\u201d CBP said in a<br>statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The children were taken to a CBP station in Santa Teresa, New Mexico to be<br>evaluated by medical personnel, and then were transported to a local hospital as a precaution. CBP said the girls remain in the agency\u2019s custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m appalled by the way these smugglers viciously dropped innocent<br>children from a 14-foot border barrier last night,\u201d chief patrol agent Gloria<br>Chavez said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chavez said US agents are working with Mexican authorities to identify<br>those responsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf not for the vigilance of our agents using mobile technology, these two<br>tender-aged siblings would have been exposed to the harsh elements of desert environment for hours,\u201d Chavez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States is facing an increase of migrant arrivals at the<br>country\u2019s southern border, mostly Central Americans who say they are fleeing poverty and violence in their own countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, there has been an average of 500 unaccompanied children crossing each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is facing growing pressure to<br>confront the situation and criticisms about how the unaccompanied minors have been cared for while under US government custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official statistics, the Department of Health and Human<br>Services had 12,918 migrant children in their care as of Tuesday, while CBP<br>was responsible for the care of another 5,285. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Two small Ecuadoran girls, three and five years old, were hoisted over and dropped from the top of a 14-foot wall marking the US-Mexican border in the middle of the night before being picked up by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers. \u201cOn Tuesday evening, a Santa Teresa agent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}