“A nine-year-old boy with a massive tumor was whisked from a gang-infested neighborhood in Mexico by US agents and taken across the border for treatment in New Mexico. The boy and his parents were snatched from the gang-infested neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez – one of the deadliest cities in the world – in an armored vehicle after members of a New Mexico Baptist church saw him near an orphanage and sought help. The parents of the child, identified only as Jose to protect his family, said the tumor on his shoulder and neck had grown so large that it affected his eyesight and could move into his heart. With no money for medical care, the family sought treatment in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, but did not receive any help removing the tumor, which has afflicted Jose since birth. Si Budagher, pastor of First Baptist Church of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, said church members spotted the boy while doing missionary work and felt compelled to help. ‘He just came up to us and offered to carry groceries,’ Mr Budagher said. ‘The Lord put him in front of us.’ Church members only recently resumed missionary work in the border city after suspending visits over the violence between competing drug cartels which has claimed thousands of lives.” w/ photos
