Posted on 07/02/2019 12:27:21 PM PDT by reaganaut1
TUCSON, Ariz.—Shortly after starting their midafternoon shift, Border Patrol agents Timothy McNeil and Jason Pope got their first 911 call: a 27-year-old Mexican man had been walking in the desert for 10 days and needed help.
The agents, both part of the elite Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue unit, found Manuel Gutierrez Lopez in a tangle of mesquite trees about 30 miles west of Tucson and some 70 miles north of the border. Mr. Gutierrez, who had called 911 on his cellphone, told them he got separated from a group of eight or nine others a few days before and had been without water for at least two days. The temperature showed 104 degrees in Mr. McNeil’s truck when the call came in last week just after 3:30 p.m.
Over more than an hour and a half, they gave Mr. Gutierrez water, Capri Sun fruit-drink pouches and a granola bar, and administered three saline IVs. When his vital signs were stable, they handed him off to a contractor in a van who would take him to the Border Patrol station, book him, and transfer him to a holding cell until he could either be sent home or released into the U.S. with a future court date.
Of the many ways migrants end up in Border Patrol custody, this is among the most desperate. The unit of 200 agents called BORSTAR stationed along the border are all trained EMTs, and they rescue people who are stranded in the mountains, caught in swift moving water, in medical need, or dial 911, a call people tend to make only in the most dire state, the agents say. Mr. McNeil is also a paramedic.
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It’s what democrats do.
Create misery so they can grab power.
They truly are the domestic enemy. The new Nazi Party.
Oh, poor Senor Gutierrez... penniless and only wants to come partake of the American dream.
And of course he has a cell phone.
I have to self censor my comments before I get in trouble.
I’ll second that.
Maybe we should air-drop some toilets in so they can drink.
I walk along American city streets as AMERICANS are treated like trash. They don’t get the Border Patrol treatment.
No words for our stupidity.
Pelosi and co. bait them to garner a few votes.
Come here for free everything!!!!
If kids sneak into my pool and drown, I’m in big trouble!
Was the gate locked? how high is the fence?...
An attractive nuisance.
Big trouble.
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