Five young unaccompanied migrant children were found abandoned on a Texas farm over the weekend.
The children, aged 7, 5, 3, and 2, were found with an 11-month-old infant on Sunday on a property near the Maverick County border town of Quemado.
Katie Hobbs said her husband, Jimmy, called her around 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning and then sent a picture to her of the five girls.
“They were crying, they were scared, they didn’t know where their parents were,” Katie Hobbs said, according to San Antonio-based CBS affiliated KENS 5. “He thought one of them was dead.”
Take a good hard look at the #BidenBorderCrisis These young girls were found outside a ranch near Quemado, Texas in #TX23. The Del Rio Sector border patrol tell me they are uninjured, healthy, and in good spirits. ? @POTUS enough is enough let’s work together solve this crisis. pic.twitter.com/mt5P7ysN9g
— Tony Gonzales (@TonyGonzales4TX) May 9, 2021
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Hobbs said her husband finished his rounds on the farm around 6 p.m. on Saturday and didn’t find the girls until early the next day.
“Jimmy said they were weeping and crying when he found them, they stopped crying when they realized they were going to get some help,” she said.
“They couldn’t say anything about their parents, or where they were, or where they had even really come from,” she continued.
Border Patrol responded to the Hobbs’s farm on Sunday and took the children for processing in nearby Uvalde before their transfer to Department of Health and Human Services custody. The children did not require medical attention. The older three girls are Honduran nationals, and the two infants are from Guatemala, the agency said in a news release.
Last night I shared a heartbreaking photo of young children found by a farmer on his land in Quemado. While we thank God they were found alive, these tragic scenes are happening more & more.
Today I visited with him & talked about the border crisis. We need a solution now. pic.twitter.com/Zzvk4UgAGc
— Tony Gonzales (@TonyGonzales4TX) May 10, 2021
“It is heartbreaking to find such small children fending for themselves in the middle of nowhere,” Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin L. Skero II said in a statement. “Unfortunately, this happens far too often now. If not for our community and law enforcement partners, these little girls could have faced the more than 100-degree temperatures with no help.”
Hobbs told KENS 5 that in the decades she and her husband have lived on the farm, they have never seen so many migrants crossing the border from Mexico. She alleged that last week, a group of 50 men crossed over less than half a mile from their home and expressed the same concerns about the heat to come.
“Our summers are about to get brutally hot, and it is going to be a killing field if something is not done,” she said.
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In March, more than 172,000 people tried to cross the border from Mexico illegally, the highest number of monthly crossings in 15 years. More than 18,000 of the 172,000 were children who crossed without parents, marking the highest number ever documented in U.S. history.
The Biden administration has received bipartisan criticism for its response to the border crisis. Border Democrats, in particular, have slammed President Joe Biden for failing them in addressing the migrant surge.
