Managua Nicaragua.
The family of a Nicaraguan boy living alone in the border between Mexico and the United States, reportedly abandoned by dealers, live moments of fear in anticipation of the return of the child and his missing mother.
Wilton Eniel Gutiérrez, 10 years old, who was found alone, cry and scared in front of migration agent on the United States border, He did not travel alone. He was with his mother Meylin Obregón, 35, who is missing, say the boy’s father and grandmother Nicaragua.
The unfortunate lived in Montes de Oro, The Paradise, a remote community of the South Caribbean Atlantic region (RAAS) of Nicaragua, from where they started USA on February 7, according to the story of the father, Lázaro Gutiérrez.
Gutierrez stated shocked for the video in which his son appears asking for help from one migration agent, which was published in local media last Monday.
Can you help me? (…) I came with a group and they dumped me and I don’t know where they are, ”the child overhears an officer on a rural road in the state Texas (United States).
“I have faith in God that I ever willI forgot to see my son and have the same touch, hoping that he grows up and then decides if he will be there for a long time (in USA) or he decides to come to me, ‘said the boy’s father.
The man, one 35-year-old farmerShe has another 12-year-old son who has been left in her care. While the mother, whose whereabouts are unknown, left with the couple’s youngest son, he explained.
“We are with the sad family por that her (his wife’s) presence is no longer present and well, she left because we had it lack of control as a couple and his family decided he should go there ‘to USA, Gutiérrez responded.
Kidnapped mother
The grandmother of Wilton, Socorro Leiva, said his major to be worried is the disappearance of his daughter Meylin, who allegedly was kidnapped by Mexican criminals, as they know from information from one of their other children, Misael Obregón.
Misael, the one in USA, explained to a Nicaraguan digital media that his relatives had been rejected at the border Y deported to Mexico.
Back in Mexico, Misael said, were mother and son kidnapped by coyotes that, after one negotiation, released only the child.
“I’m now in two (worries), already in the child, I don’t even think even because I know it is insurance, that we at least at the family (and there to decide where the child could be better, but now my thoughts are with her ”, said the tormented mother.
The government of Nicaragua announced on Friday it would take steps to Mexico and the United States localize Wilton and their mother so that they can return to the land safely.
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The one of Wilton is the first known case of one Nicaraguan boy, that as thousands of unaccompanied minors hail from Central America, arrived at the US border with the intention of receiving asylum in that country.
The number of traced unaccompanied minors in lto the southern border of the US. in March registered an increase of 100% over the previous month, more than 18,000 children, according to data from the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
In total they were arrested 172,331 migrants, 71% more than in February. This is a 15-year high amid mounting pressure on the Joe Biden government to manage the situation at the border and accommodate unaccompanied minors.