EDINBURG, Texas -- Video posted this week on Twitter shows a U.S. Border Patrol agent saving a child from drowning along the Texas-Mexico border.
It happened Saturday at a pond near Mission, Texas.
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The agent jumped into that pond to rescue the boy from Guatemala who was struggling in the water.
The agent tied a rope around his waist and saved the boy who was taken to a hospital and released later that day.
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Border patrol personnel were tracking footprints leading from Mexico into the United States when they located the boy and two others.
The agent was also transported to a hospital but was also released later that day.