Migrant woman allegedly tried to smuggle druggedchild across the border with fake birth certificate

A migrant woman allegedly tried to sneak a drugged child across the southern border with a fake birth certificate Wednesday, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.ICE officers from the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations unit busted Gloria Lopez-Corona — a 24-year-old US resident from Mexico — as she was driving her car through the San Luis port of entry with a child in tow, according to court documents.Lopez-Corona claimed they were going to see her son’s father and his family in Los Angeles.Agents spotted the child asleep in the back seat, “completely covered with a large, bulky blanket from head to toe.” However, the young boy wouldn’t wake from his “deep sleep” despite the officers’ search of the vehicle, the docs state.Feds later found “sleep gummies” they believe were used to sedate the child.Lopez-Corona presented the border officers with a birth certificate, which listed her name as the mother and stated that the child was born in 2023.After uncovering the child from beneath the blanket, they noticed that he looked to be four or five years old — and not two, according to the court documents.The child later told officers “that he was given gummies by his mother” and taken by a man to the US border by taxi, bus and plane.

At one point, the child said he was “taken to a place where there were other children” before he arrived in the US, where he was to reside “with another unknown man,” the documents recount..The officers then determined that the birth certificate belonged to a different child, prompting Lopez-Corona to fess up that she wasn’t actually the kid’s mother.The woman claimed that “his mom has his birth certificate in Los Angeles.”An officer had also asked Lopez-Corona to show a photo of her and the boy, but said she “struggled to find a photo of the two of them together” and presented photos that “looked nothing like the child asleep in the car seat,” according to the ...