WATCH: Footage is going viral of a National Guardsman running to save an immigrant child after it was abandoned at the border and stranded in the middle of the Rio Grande.
"Security video from a contact shows what appears to be an abandoned migrant child on a flotation device drifting down the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, TX — alone," according to a Sunday post sharing the footage."A Texas National Guard soldier can be seen rushing in to try to help."
NEW: Security video from a contact shows what appears to be an abandoned migrant child on a flotation device drifting down the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, TX - alone. A Texas National Guard soldier can be seen rushing in to try to help, & we are told the child was later rescued. pic.twitter.com/KKuHeQIsWNThe child can be seen deserted in the middle of a river when the guardsman appears and begins running to the bank, according to the footage.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have encountered over 1 million immigrants since the fiscal year began in October 2022, according to Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Gloria Chavez.
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