Police discovered an unidentified 4-year-old migrant child wandering the downtown streets Monday.
An officer who first spotted the child says he was only able to provide his age by lifting four fingers when questioned. The child described to the officer how he was left alone in a commonly used local stash house.
When officers asked the boy where he was coming from, the boy pointed to a boarded-up home on Jefferson Street. Officers searched the house known to officers as a stash spot. There were no people inside the home. The boy, visibly shaken, was able to tell officers he was brought across the Rio Grande by an unknown man. The boy said he was left alone at the home and later managed to climb from a window to escape.
According to HHS, Eric was one of 243 unaccompanied minor children apprehended along the border on Monday. The child will be taken to an HHS facility where the agency will work to identify him and locate sponsors in the United States. At present, the department is housing 7,743 unaccompanied children in the process of releases to domestic sponsors.
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