Crying, abandoned boy approaches US Border Patrol officer to ask for help Doug Delony Replay Video UP NEXT Heartbreaking video released by the U.S. Border Patrol shows an immigrant boy alone, crying and asking an officer for help near the Texas-Mexico border. Note: the video above is from an April 1st broadcast about "Operation Lonestar" underway at the border CBS News reported that a Rio Grande City Border Patrol agent found the child, age 10, walking alone on a rural road and crying. The child apparently went to sleep, and when he woke up he realized he was left behind by the group of immigrants he was traveling with.