CBP Helps Deliver a Baby at the San Luis Port of Entry

Monday, January 07, 2008

San Luis, Ariz. -- A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at the San Luis, Ariz. port of entry helped deliver a baby at the port of entry today.

On January 7 at approximately 10 a.m., a baby boy was born at the vehicle secondary inspection area at the San Luis port of entry to Jesus Consuelo Vega Rameno, a lawful permanent resident residing in Yuma, Ariz.

CBP officer Roy Richardson was manning Lane 6 at the San Luis port of entry when a man approached him on foot from a vehicle waiting to be inspected in pre-primary.

Upon providing immigration documents to Richardson, the man and his daughter, who was suffering from obvious labor pains, requested an ambulance. Officer Richardson escorted the woman toward vehicle secondary and was met by Mendez.

CBP Officer Margaret Mendez assisted a Navy Corpsman assigned to the New Orleans Ambulatory Care Center as he delivered the baby. The Corpsman was attending compartment training with a group of Marines at the San Luis port of entry when the mother, in labor, was escorted off vehicle primary by Officer Richardson and turned over to Officer Mendez.

CBP’s Mendez and the Navy Corpsman provided immediate medical assistance to the woman. The paramedics and an engineer from the San Luis Fire Department arrived at about 9:42 to assist with the post partum care of mother and child.

A rural Metro Ambulance arrived soon after to transport mother and baby to the Yuma Regional Medical Center in Yuma, Arizona. Both appeared to be doing well.