Border Patrol agents rescue abandoned siblings, ages 5 and 6, at US-Mexico border
A Border Patrol agent comforts a boy and a girl who were rescued after they were abandoned at the U.S.- Mexico border in San Diego County. - US Border Patrol/TNS

SAN DIEGO — Border Patrol agents rescued two children, a 5-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother, after they were abandoned along the U.S.-Mexico border in southeastern San Diego County this week, officials said. About 3 p.m. Monday, the agents spotted a man and a woman walking with the two children just south of the border near the community of Jacumba Hot Springs. The agents observed as the man and woman "hoisted" the children over large boulders in an area near the side of a mountain where the border wall ends, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Jeff Stephenson said in a statement. When age...