Border Patrol Agents Deliver Baby in Truck

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Border Patrol Agents Deliver Baby in Truck

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A pregnant Mexican woman who got caught after crossing illegally into the United States gave birth in the back of a Border Patrol agent's vehicle.

The baby is an American citizen because she was born on U.S. soil. But her fate, and that of her mother, are still uncertain. The girl was born 2 1/2 months prematurely and weighed less than 2 pounds.

She was named Sarai Marisol in honor of Marisol Cantu, one of the agents who found her mother.

The 27-year-old woman told authorities she had crossed the border with a group led by a smuggler but was abandoned because she could not keep up. She had been walking for five or six days when she became exhausted, said Alejandro Lopez Bajo with the Mexican Consulate in Laredo.

She was in labor Sunday when Border Patrol agents, alerted by two anonymous Good Samaritans, found her on the side of the road near the border city of Laredo. Minutes later, the three agents delivered the tiny infant in the back of a Border Patrol sport utility vehicle.

"I don't have any kids, so this was a huge experience for me," Cantu said Thursday.

"I've never seen anyone that far along in the brush," said Agent Jerry Doyal, a former hospital corpsman in the Navy who pinched the umbilical cord with his fingers.

The baby was in intensive care at a Corpus Christi hospital. The mother was staying at a Catholic shelter.

She told a Catholic Charities nun that she didn't want to be identified or interviewed for fear a boyfriend whom she was fleeing would find her.

The woman can either take her baby home to Mexico or make a plea to remain in this country.

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[Darin]

Better them than me. I almost had to deliver one not long after being out on my own. Luckily she already spit the baby out before I arrived. Well actually it plopped on the bathroom floor.....

[wacodep]

Border Patrol Agents Deliver Baby in Truck

That MUST have been painful for Mom ...