Some disturbing reports are emerging about the plight of migrant kids along the U.S. Border with Mexico. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) says their troopers have recovered over 900 children who were left abandoned or found smuggled in vehicles along the Texas-Mexico Border alone. Nationwide, the DPS says 320,000 unaccompanied children are unaccounted for who have crossed the border into the United States.
When you look at some of the individual stories involving those children, the situation becomes even more horrifying:
This nine-year-old Honduran boy was rescued by U.S. & Mexican authorities after being held for ransom in Juarez, Mexico last month.Photo byU.S. Homeland Security Investigations
For example: last month U.S. Homeland Security Investigators (HSI) in El Paso, Texas worked with their Mexican counterparts to rescue a nine-year-old Honduran boy who was being held for ransom by a Mexican Cartel in a stash house in Juarez. The child has since been returned to his country.