Washington, United States — Two small Ecuadoran girls, three and five years old, were hoisted over and dropped from the top of a 14-foot wall marking the US-Mexican border in the middle of the night before being picked up by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, the agency said Wednesday.
“On Tuesday evening, a Santa Teresa agent utilizing camera technology observed a smuggler dropping two young children from the top of the approximately 14-foot-high (four-meter-high) border barrier,” CBP said in a statement.
The children were taken to a CBP station in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, to be evaluated by medical personnel, and then were transported to a local hospital as a…
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