5-year-old migrant left on river island, reunited with mom by Border Patrol

[rangerrebew]

5-year-old migrant left on river island, reunited with mom by Border Patrol
Border Crime

by: Sandra Sanchez   
Posted: Nov 16, 2021 / 06:52 PM CST   / Updated: Nov 16, 2021 / 06:52 PM CST   

 

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Border Patrol agents said they rescued a 5-year-old Venezuelan girl who was left on an island in the Rio Grande — between Mexico and the United States — by human traffickers.

The girl was reunited on Nov. 13 with her mother in Eagle Pass, Texas, after agents from the riverine unit took a boat to the small island in international waters where they found the girl along with nine other migrants, Border Patrol said Tuesday.
Mini islands on Rio Grande provide cover for human smugglers and drug runners in South Texas

The mother had alerted agents that her daughter had been left behind, they said.

“Human smugglers are cold and calculated, often separating families for their own convenience or to gain compliance,” Del Rio Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Robert Danley said in a statement. “Thankfully our agents acted quickly and were able to locate the young girl and reunite her with her mother without incident.”

https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/border-crime/5-year-old-migrant-left-on-river-island-reunited-with-mom-by-border-patrol/

[rangerrebew]

Is this a test case by human smugglers?  Are they going to try and get the mother and child $450,000 for being "separated" at the border?  With the Biden administration, don't discount the possibility.  Imagine the amount of money that can be made by illegals and smugglers if they can get the money for being separated at the border.  Illegals come out wealthy by Mejico standards and the smugglers can have a "surcharge" for separating them.

[LilLamb]

Is there DNA evidence that she is actually the mother of the little girl?  Do smugglers now not even have to cross the border to pass trafficked children? Do they just drop them on the island and the buyer can get a random Hispanic woman to make a phone call to border patrol for the delivery?