A human smuggler dropped a migrant lady from the top of a 30-foot wall in California, according to video caught by border security camera systems. Agents from the El Centro Sector arrived and treated the woman for a significant ankle injury.
🚑😡#USBP agents responded to a mother and her son after the mother fell from the US/Mexico #border wall. Agents provided immediate #medical attention to the mother’s severely injured ankle. Agents work tirelessly to combat smugglers’ complete disregard of life. #Truchacoyote pic.twitter.com/2swRIoh5MY
— USBP Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino (@USBPChiefELC) June 6, 2022
Border security surveillance cameras caught a video that El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino tweeted. Several migrants and human traffickers can be seen on the 30-foot border wall in the footage. A lady falls to the ground as one of the smugglers begins to drop her from the top of the wall.
The smugglers then lower the woman’s son from the wall with a rope, placing him in peril as well.
Border Patrol personnel from the El Centro Sector reacted to the scene and discovered the mother and her son on the ground near the base of the wall. The agents examined her and treated her seriously wounded ankle with emergency medical attention.
🚨⛑#BORSTAR agents rescued a migrant in distress in the Jacumba Wilderness region early Friday morning. Since October 2021, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents have #rescued 179 individuals! Phenomenal work by the #USBP agents that guard our #border 24/7/365!🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Ljccpj2K9V
— USBP Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino (@USBPChiefELC) June 4, 2022
The chief posted a photo of another migrant lady rescued by Border Search, Trauma, and Rescue (BORSTAR) officers late last week. According to the chief, the woman became dehydrated after being lost in the Jacumba Wilderness.
El Centro Sector agents rescued roughly 180 migrants during Fiscal Year 22, which began on October 1, 2021.