White House: Video of abandoned migrant boy is 'heartbreaking'

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The White House called the video of an interaction between a migrant child abandoned in the Rio Grande Valley and a Border Patrol agent “heartbreaking.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked during Wednesday’s press briefing if President Joe Biden had seen the video of the 10-year-old Nicaraguan child who said he was left on a rural road near La Grulla, Texas. The boy approached a Border Patrol agent on April 1 and asked for help after the group he was traveling with separated from him.

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