A 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant died in a Texas hospital while in the custody o...
- A 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant died in a Texas hospital while in the custody of the U.S. government on Wednesday after his health steadily declined due to a severe brain infection, according to officials from both countries.
He entered the United States near the border city of El Paso, Texas and was detained by U.S. border patrol agents on April 19, according to a statement from Guatemala’s foreign ministry. The teenager was transferred on April 20 from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody to the Brownsville shelter run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which houses migrant children.
Shelter staff took the teen to a hospital emergency department that morning where he was treated and released to the shelter the same day, the statement added. Opponents of U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including Democrats in Congress, have called for better medical screening in border facilities to detect such cases sooner and prevent deaths.
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