Posted Jul 11, 2017, 11:39 am
Members of the Nogales Fire Department rescued a Mexican woman on Saturday night after smugglers left her "precariously dangling" from the border fence in Nogales, authorities said.
Agents patrolling the border east of Nogales said they witnessed two men, described as smugglers, attempt to lower a woman, later identified only as a 37-year-old Mexican woman, into the United States using a harness and a hoist rope, said a Border Patrol spokesman.
As the agents approached, she tried to climb back over the fence, but could not, and the men on the other side abandoned her, leaving her hanging approximately 15 feet above the ground, the spokesman said.
The agents called the Nogales Fire Department to get her down, he said.
The woman was not injured, the spokesman said, adding that she will be processed for immigration violations.
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