Man crossing into US falls nearly 20 feet off cliff at Texas border, officials say

A migrant fell nearly 20 feet from a cliff in Eagle Pass, Texas on Nov. 4, sustaining several injuries, border officials said.

Agents received a report of an individual who fell from a cliff near a creek in Eagle Pass, about 142 miles south of San Antonio, a release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

Border Patrol agents located the man, who had several leg injuries and was “assessed and carefully extracted” by emergency medical personnel, the release said.

He was taken to a local hospital and later transferred to a San Antonio-area hospital for further treatment.

Border officials described the injured man as a “Mexican national.”

Late last month, a woman died after a large group of swimmers tried to enter the U.S. by swimming around the border barrier to the San Diego shore, McClatchy News previously reported.