The Nicaraguan boy is in a detention center in Donna, Texas, where he has undergone medical examinations, the Border Patrol reported. Nicaragua’s vice president, Rosario Murillo, said it was possible to locate the minor’s father.
This week, a video circulated on social media of a 10-year-old boy asking the US border patrol for help after being left on the border with Mexico by a group of migrants. The minor’s family recognized him and began repatriation procedures.
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Nicaragua Vice President Rosario Murillo told official media that her government is taking steps with Mexico and the United States to locate him and his mother, as the minor was traveling with his mother, Meyling Obregón, whose whereabouts are unknown. Murillo reported that they sent the request to Interpol this Friday to find out the whereabouts of both. The Nicaraguan boy is in a detention center in Donna, Texas, where he has undergone medical examinations, the Border Patrol reported.
The boy was on a rural road near La Grulla, 30 miles west of McCallen. In a statement, the Patrol explained that the ten-year-old boy was “distraught and crying” because upon waking he realized that the group of migrants he was traveling with “had abandoned him.” The minor was taken to the Border Patrol’s detention center in Donna and authorities contacted his family, according to the KTSA television station in San Antonio.
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Murrillo informed the local press that it was possible to find the minor’s father, who said his wife and their son left the country for the United States on February 7. “On April 7, he learned from the news that the child he had. Was rescued by Migration and thought it was the mother who left him to be rescued. Our police are taking steps to locate Meyling,” said the vice president. according to the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa.
The minor’s uncle, Misael Obregón, who lives in the United States, explained to a Nicaraguan digital medium that his relatives had been rejected at the border and deported to Mexico. Back in Mexico, Misael said, mother and son were kidnapped by coyotes who, after negotiation, released only the child.
In recent statements to the US media, Brian Hastings, chief of the Rio Grande Valley border patrol, said he has evidence that many families are breaking up voluntarily and only sending children to try to cross again after an initial deportation. Many migrants, he said, are “sometimes carried away by the illusion and mirage of seeking better living conditions because the world is difficult, especially with this pandemic.”