"Troopers recovered two unaccompanied female children left abandoned by a smuggler in Eagle Pass who fled back to Mexico," Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez said in a post on X alongside the image.
The latest saga adds to a growing list of incidents where unaccompanied migrant kids have been ditched at the border of late - often with phone numbers or addresses of relatives written on them.
Footage of a 2-year-old migrant girl, also from El Salvador, sparked widespread outrage last month after she told US authorities she had come to the US alone to find her parents.
A shocking report released in August revealed the administration has lost track of more than 320,000 of the migrant children who have crossed the border without their parents.
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