Ecuador shocked by the "abandonment" of two girls at the Mexico-United States border

The two little girls were thrown from the top of the border wall and left there by their smugglers.

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The “abandonment” in the middle of the desert of two little girls, aged 3 and 5, thrown from the four-meter-high border wall by a human trafficker, scandalized Ecuador.

The subject is all the more sensitive as the economic crisis and the impact of the pandemic have put thousands of Ecuadorians on the road to exile.

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With our correspondent in Quito,

Eric Samson

The

infrared images

of the Border Patrol in New Mexico turned loop on social networks in Ecuador.

Even though the population knows that the two little girls thrown from a four-meter-high wall were recovered by the American authorities and that they are well, people are outraged.

The Foreign Office condemned "

 an inhuman and irrational act 

," and put the Houston, Texas consulate at the service of little girls.

Unaccompanied minors flock to the border

President of the Mouvement Familles et Migrants (MFAM) association, Joffrey Pinzón confirms the rise in illegal migration of minors to the United States.

 Ecuador unfortunately is currently in the sights of delinquency, drug traffickers.

School failure is growing and young people have no future, he

emphasizes. 

If I am a migrant to the United States, even without papers, if I make a good living, I will eventually decide to bring them in and contact the coyotes, the people traffickers and there I will play a bit of the lottery with the my children's life.

 " 

Ecuadorian authorities have asked families not to put their children at risk of illegal migration, but this call is unlikely to be heard.

Every day, nearly 500 unaccompanied children from Central and South America try to cross the border into the United States.

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