Stranded Migrant Air Rescued Near Baboquivari Peak
July 26, 2021 - Air and Marine
Operations (AMO) agents, partnered with Border Patrol
agents, air rescued a stranded migrant in the Baboquivari
Mountains southwest of Tucson.
On board an AMO Black
Hawk helicopter, agents responded to a 911 call placed by a
24-year-old Guatemalan man. The air crew located him near
Baboquivari Peak, where rugged terrain forced them to
perform a hoist extraction of the man.
An AMO
emergency medical technician was hoisted to the stranded
migrants’ location for hoist extraction. The migrant was
airlifted and transported to a temporary facility for
immigration processing.
The Tucson Sector has
encountered more than 118,000 single adult migrants this
fiscal year to date, a 282% increase over last year.
