Border Patrol agents in Texas recently apprehended smugglers who had separated a child from his parents -- something authorities warned could have left the youngster “helplessly under the control of strangers.” According to Border Patrol officials, a van was stopped at the I-35 checkpoint north of Laredo on Oct.
8, where 16 illegal immigrants from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Ecuador were apprehended.Two of the illegal immigrants, a married Honduran couple, said they had been separated from their nine-year-old son by the smugglers.
The pair told agents the child did not fit in the van so the smugglers said he would "follow up" with them -- but they did not know what that meant, or when they would see their son again.
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