Texas officials found yet another abandoned and crying child wandering alone near the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas after ruthless smugglers dumped him.
Footage of the young boy shows him in tears with nothing more than a cell phone in his hands as he is approached by a state trooper near Maverick County, Texas.
“They let me down,” he tells the officer in Spanish in a video posted by a Texas DPS spokesperson Lieutenant Chris Olivarez Thursday. “They don’t want to guide me.”
Through tears, the 10-year-old Salvadoran told the officer that he was traveling alone and that his mother was in the United States.
The officer assures the boy that he has reached America and tells him he will call the Border Patrol to come get him.
“As many of us celebrate Thanksgiving with our family and friends, we must remember that many children cannot enjoy the holiday or see their families because they have been placed in a difficult situation due to open border conditions,” Olivarez wrote online.
Children traveling without a legal guardian, what the U.S. government considers “unaccompanied minors,” are automatically granted entry into the country regardless of how they enter.
Unlike adult migrants, they are not sent back to their home country.
The ten-year-old boy presented himself to a CBP agent in tears. He told him he was all alone after being ‘abandoned’ by smugglers
Legal protocol stipulates that the minor will be received by the U.S. Border Patrol, medically evaluated, and then transferred to the United States Office of Refugee Resettlement until they can be reunited with a family member in the U.S. or placed in foster care.
The boy is the second high-profile case of children being dumped across the border by smugglers this week.
On Sunday, a two-year-old girl who could barely speak was discovered with a yellow post-it with information about her relatives in the US.
It has become a heartbreaking norm during the Biden administration, when children with names and addresses written on their clothes or secured with a safety pin were found alone and defenseless.
Also this week, another 31 unaccompanied minors were found in the same area, according to Texas DPS.
On Wednesday, a group of 166 illegal immigrants were arrested, including the children and five Special Interest Aliens from Iran and Turkey.
In the month of October alone, 125 unaccompanied minors cross the U.S.-Mexico border, according to federal statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Since 2022, at least 7,294 unaccompanied children have been taken into custody at the southern border.
Heartless human traffickers tell parents that their child will be safe and led to authorities, but in reality the helpless little ones are often abandoned once they cross the international border.
Often, migrant parents who are already in the U.S. work and save enough to pay smugglers to smuggle their children across the border.
However, they place their child in the hands of criminals who sexually abuse the child or worse.
As DailyMail.com reported in September, migrants will take more desperate measures to enter the country before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20.
Officials in Texas are preparing for a surge of migrants at the border as Trump has vowed to cut off all access once he takes office.