Sisters dropped over border barrier by smugglers in shocking video 'doing fine,' Border Patrol officer says
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The young girls who were literally dropped on the American side of the U.S.-Mexico border and abandoned by smugglers earlier this week are sisters from Ecuador who are "doing fine" and are "so resilient," El Paso Border Patrol Sector Chief Gloria Chavez told "Your World" Thursday.
On Wednesday, Chavez released video showing what she said were two smugglers scaling a 14-foot fence and dropping each child on to the ground, along with what appeared to be some belongings, before retreating back onto the Mexican side of the fence. Chavez said the girls -- ages five and two -- were left "in the middle of the New Mexico desert ... miles from the nearest residence" and were only picked up thanks to the "vigilance of our agents using mobile [surveillance] technology." "When I visited with these little girls, they were so loving and so talkative, some of them were asking the names of all the agents that were there around them, and they even said they were a little hungry," Chavez recalled. "So I helped them peel a banana and open a juice box and just talked to them. You know, children are just so resilient and I'm so grateful that they're not severely injured or [have] broken limbs or anything like that."More Related News
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