Houston Chronicle by Silvia Foster-Frau July 19, 2019
GRANJENO — About 40 migrant children and parents walked along a gravel path after crossing the Rio Grande on rafts at dawn on Thursday. Their clothes and hair were wet and sticky in the muggy morning air.
Their objective: to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents as soon as possible.
They were greeted by Border Patrol signs in Spanish (“Follow the arrows to receive helpâ€) that guided the asylum-seekers along the winding, gravel road to a clearing beneath the Anzalduas International Bridge, where agents were waiting to take them into custody.
Border Patrol Agent Carlos Ruiz greeted the group about a half mile from the clearing. By that point, the migrants had walked more than three miles since crossing the river.
“Is everyone OK? Anyone sick?†Ruiz asked.
“Yes, over here,†a man called out from the rear of the group.
Ruiz circled to the back to find a boy who was being held upright by two men, his feet dragging in the dirt. His face was pale; he was dehydrated. Ruiz loaded the boy into his vehicle to take him to a Border Patrol field tent under the bridge, where agents turned on the air conditioning and evaluated his condition.
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