Smuggler drops migrant girl, 7, down 30-foot border wall, abandons her

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a news release that agents had spotted what was happening on the surveillance systems at the El Centro Station.
43% : The heartbreaking footage shows the small child alone, after being left with no food or water to survive, and walking along the side of the border wall.
43% : Border Patrol has not commented on whether the child caught on camera has a US-based relative who can now care for her.
42% : The child is one of more than 132,000 unaccompanied minors who have been apprehended by Border Patrol after crossing the US's southern border so far in the 2021 fiscal year.
41% : The heartbreaking footage shows the small child alone - who has been left with no food or water to survive - walking along the side of the border wall
36% : 'This decision was made out of caution, believing that the smuggler might panic and drop the child, resulting in serious injury or death given the height of the border wall.'
34% : This placed the child in further danger, the CBP said, as just north of the border wall is the All-American Canal.
33% : This placed the child in further danger, the CBP said, as just north of the border wall is the All-American Canal (above)

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