Dramatic Border Video With Kids Surfaces Amid Crossing Surge

Several small children cry as smugglers try to help adults and children get through a hole in a border fence, in Yuma, Arizona, on Dec. 22, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection

PHOENIX—As sirens wail in the background, migrant smugglers push adults and children through a hole beneath a border wall despite an officer’s demands on the other side that they return to Mexico.

“Return back!” the agent yells in one of two Customs and Border Protection videos released on April 2.