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Video footage released by border agents captured the moment they reunited a migrant mother with her five-year-old daughter who was abandoned by smugglers on an island in between Mexico and the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the Venezuelan woman noticed her daughter was missing a short while after she and a group of migrants had reached the shore of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, last Friday.
Agents from with U.S. Border Patrol’s Eagle Pass Station related the information to a unit that was patrolling the waterway and later located the girl with nine other undocumented migrants on the island.
The migrants were ferried across the Rio Grande and into Texas before an agent recorded the child running up to her distraught mother and sharing a hug.
A distraught mother from Venezuela approaches her five-year-old daughter after U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued the child and nine other migrants who were left behind by smugglers on an island between Mexico and the United States near Eagle Pass, Texas
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the mother approached border patrol agents moments after she was ferried from Mexico to a town near Eagle Pass, Texas, via the Rio Grande and asked them for help in recovering her five-year-old daughter, who had been
