2-Year-Old Boy, Still Alive, Found Next To His Migrant Mother's Dead Body Near Yuma

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Arizona Mirror

The mother and girl died from heat-related illness somewhere in the Cocopah Indian Tribe lands.

Arizona Mirror, News Partner
Posted Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 6:17 pm MT



The mother and two children had migrated from Colombia. (Christopher Broan/Patch)
Arizona Mirror

A Colombian man living in Florida is trying to reunite with his toddler son after his wife and daughter died in the desert west of Yuma, an ordeal that the two-year-old boy survived as the family crossed into the United States from Mexico.

Hugo Morales Pinzon lost his wife and 10-year-old daughter last week. The mother and girl died from heat-related illness somewhere in the Cocopah Indian Tribe lands just east of the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Border Patrol agents found a two-year old boy, still alive, next to his mother's dead body. He needed medical attention, CBP said in a statement. Emergency personnel took him to a hospital. He is now in government custody in California, according to the Colombian Consulate in Los Angeles.

The boy is among the nearly 15,000 migrant children and teens who, as of Aug. 31, are in the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. ORR holds minors who arrived at the border alone or were separated from their relatives at the border.

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There is no data for the number of dead migrants found in Yuma County, but the medical examiner in neighboring Pima County recorded 220 remains of dead migrants in Pima, Cochise, and Santa Cruz counties last year. So far this year, there have been 162 skeletons and bodies of migrants recovered, said Greg Hess, chief medical examiner for Pima County.

Read more: https://patch.com/arizona/across-az/2-year-old-boy-still-alive-found-next-his-migrant-mothers-dead-body-near-yuma

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Heart breaking in so many ways.

[iluvtennis]

3. Yes, heartbreaking.

[Judi Lynn]

4. That terrain looks ferocious, imagining anyone and two small children trying to cross it.

Unbearably sad.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. It's hotter'n hell out there.

Well all of AZ is hot but that area is very hot.

Most of Arizona is pretty much hot and dry.

My daughter & her husband bought some property near Mayer and will eventually live there. I told her she was moving into the Insanity District --she said "I know and I can't wait to vote against him! "

Interestingly, AZ is reapportioned by a Commission not the Legislature. Some of those Congressional Districts are really large, acreage wise. AZ-1 runs all the way from Flagstaff up to Navajo nation and down to part of Tucson.

[not fooled]

2. Not surprising that there are no data for Yuma County

Trumptard central, proud recipient of multiple visits from red don and location of a stretch of the Potemkin Village border "wall."

Paul Gosar's district is in the county, which is run by a bunch of dumb goobers. Oh, and labor from Mexico is absolutely essential for all of the white growers and farmers to make money.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Thanks for your post. Had no idea Paul Gosar has infested Yuma County! They need to lose him.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. My district is half of Yuma County, and LD4 is D+13

My part of Yuma County is along the river, the Mexican border near to the west and south, and half of the city of Yuma that criss-crosses around Ave B and 8th Ave. Outside of Yuma, anything south of I-8 to Gila Bend is my district.

Gosar's district is the east and north going towards the Fortuna Foothills and up to Quartzsite.

[samplegirl]

7. I can't imagine

how horribly sad.

[sakabatou]

8. :(

[Omaha Steve]

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