Two boys were pulled out of the Rio Grande River after the Border Patrol found them clinging to the riverbank.
The boys are not related.
They told Border Patrol that they were separated from their mothers in Mexico and a man claimed he would help them cross into the United States - only to abandon them at the river.
Officials say the boys are otherwise healthy.
The two Honduran boys, ages 7 and 13, were going to be transferred to U.S. Health and Human Services custody.