The U.S. Border Patrol said that it rescued an unaccompanied 8-year-old child along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, according to a news release on Tuesday.
Officials said aside from learning his name and age, the boy was not able to provide any other basic biographical information to Border Patrol agents.
“Upon arriving to the Rio Grande Valley Centralized Processing Center, agents attempted to gather additional information from the child but were unsuccessful due to the language barrier. The Border Patrol is currently working with consulate offices to determine the child’s nationality and dialect origin to process him accordingly,” the Border Patrol stated.
Meanwhile, on July 23, the Border Patrol said that one of its agents was “rocked,” meaning someone threw rocks at the agent, after locating a group of illegal immigrants near Progreso, Texas.
They were under the Progreso International Bridge when agents made the discovery.
After the agent called for backup, additional units arrived, and the group retreated back into the Rio Grande and swam to Mexico.
Earlier this month, Border Patrol agents were credited with rescuing 64 illegal immigrants hidden inside sweltering tractor-trailers in one weekend. In two months, 406 were rescued.