Border Patrol Officer Rescues Migrant, Heat Makes Border Crossings Especially Dangerous

⛑ HAPPENING NOW- LEFT BEHIND#BP Special Operations Detachment carry a migrant out of the brush and to safety. The migrant suffered an injury while being smuggled into the US.#RESCUES#SavingLives#Heroes pic.twitter.com/JCX84aszNA

— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) July 8, 2021

It is a hot stretch in the West.  The spiking heat is a danger for migrants along the U.S./Mexico border.  

Many news outlets are reporting on a tweeted photo of a rescue by a Border Patrol officer rescuing a migrant in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley and carrying her to safety.

“Special Operations Detachment carry a migrant out of the brush and to safety,” Rio Grande Valley sector chief Brian Hastings tweeted on Thursday. “The migrant suffered an injury while being smuggled into the US.”

As Josh Marcus for The Independent (United Kingdom) reports, 

“Officials from [Mexico and the United States] at an event in Yuma, Arizona, on Thursday warned that excessive heat is making the crossing extremely dangerous, against a backdrop of 110 degree weather. . . . 

Despite the warnings from officials, US border policy is explicitly designed to push migrants to cross in dangerous, remote areas as a way to deter further crossings.”

Death of migrants on the U.S./Mexico border, especially in the heat of the summer, has been a phenomenon for years.

KJ