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Coast Guard from Houston TDY to the southern Rio Grande to reinforce Customs and Border Protection teams have been busy. During the recent upsurge in border crossings, they are seeing a corresponding surge of problems in water crossings.<\/p>\n
They watched the baby, facedown in the brown current, run past the boat\u2019s propellers, swept away by the Rio Grande.<\/p>\n
It was just before dawn on June 2, somewhere near McAllen, Texas, and US Coast Guard Boatswain\u2019s Mate 2nd Class Jarrett Guerra shouted to the crew of the 29-foot response boat\u2013small to save the child.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going in!\u201d yelled Maritime Enforcement Specialist 2nd Class Jake Flores, stripping off 50 pounds of gear and splashing into the deep river.<\/p>\n
One woman was clinging to his boat to keep from being swept away. The other had lost her grip on the 1-year-old.<\/p>\n
He caught up to the infant and handed him up to the boat crew. Guerra said the baby had looked \u201cpretty much lifeless. There was no breathing, no color.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Flores pushed the two women aboard the boat, Boatswain\u2019s Mate 3rd Class Corey Connolly immediately began CPR on the boy, using two fingers to press on the child\u2019s chest.<\/p>\n
In June alone, US Coast Guard personnel from Houston saved seven lives on the Rio Grande and assisted in rescuing 37 others.<\/p>\n
Coddington pointed to a June 16 rescue. A dozen migrants were in a raft crossing the river. The second the Coast Guard boat ripped around the bend, their coyote \u2014 the smuggler guiding the group into the US \u2014 dove into the water and began swimming to the Texas shore.<\/p>\n
That panicked the migrants left behind, and the incident quickly became \u201cchaotic,\u201d Coddington said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n