Texas Farmer Finds 5 Unaccompanied Girls Abandoned in 100-Degree Heat As Border Crisis Continues

Five unaccompanied migrant girls were found Sunday near Texas’s southern border after being abandoned and left to face extremely hot temperatures, according to federal officials.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the girls, who range in age from 7 years old to 11 months, were discovered Sunday on a farm near the Rio Grande River.

Farm owner Katie Hobbs said her husband Jimmy called her around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday and sent her a picture of the five children he discovered on their property, according to KENS-TV. She said they found the girls abandoned on a blanket in the dirt, with the youngest crawling around without a diaper.

“They were crying, they were scared, they didn’t know where their parents were,” Hobbs said. “He thought one of them was dead.”

She said they gave the children water and snacks and called Border Patrol.

Hobbs, her husband and farm employees tried to calm the children, who Hobbs said seemed unable to tell them where they were from or who their parents were.

“They couldn’t say anything about their parents, or where they were, or where they had even really come from,” she said.

Border Patrol officials later said the girls aged 7, 3, and 2 were from Honduras, while the other two were from Guatemala.

“It is heartbreaking to find such small children fending for themselves in the middle of nowhere,” said Chief Border Patrol Agent Austin Skero II, according to KABC-TV. “Unfortunately this happens far too often now. If not for our community and law enforcement partners, these little girls could have faced the more than 100-degree temperatures with no help.”