Agents capture 12 suspected illegal immigrants, rescue injured woman, others via helicopter
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Four suspected illegal immigrants were rescued by a BORSTAR Search and Rescue helicopter at about 11:30 a.m. Sunday after a woman in a larger group of suspected illegal immigrants was injured during a fall high in Ash Canyon.
According to BORSTAR Supervisory Agent Robert Kiernan, assigned to the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, the incident began at about 3 a.m. when a group of 12 suspected illegal immigrants was apprehended high in the Huachuca Mountains by four Border Patrol Agents from the agency’s Naco Sector.
The Naco based agents were in the process of escorting the group out of the mountains on foot when an adult woman fell and received a crushing injury to her hand and fingers as a result of falling rocks.
At about 5:30 a.m., Kiernan said, a call was put in to Border Patrol Search and Rescue agents in the Tucson Sector.
As four more BORSTAR Search and Rescue agents made their way to the group already in the field, a helicopter was dispatched to the area and began making preparations for a rescue by about 7 or 8 a.m., he said.
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(Jacob Petersen • Herald/Review)
I’ve read reports about alleged abuse by Border Patrol Agents, and I’m sure there has been some abuse, but I’m equally sure most agents take good care of the people they find.