Border patrol reports sixth child death in six months after none the previous decade
News broke last night that a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador died in U.S. custody last September, a death that had gone previously unreported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection .
Migrant children from different Latin American countries rest on cots inside the Casa del Refugiado, or The House of Refugee, a new center opened by the Annunciation House to help the large flow of migrants being released by the U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in El Paso, Texas. PAUL RATJE/AFP/Getty Images
President Donald Trump has accused asylum seekers of gaming the system or lying about what they’re fleeing from. He’s suggested that the U.S. close off its entire southern border and indicated that he wouldn't be opposed to revisiting family separations. Late last year, the president sent 5,200 members of the U.S. military to the southern border and said that if any migrant throws a rock, the military should use gunfire in return.
Mark Weber, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, said that the girl was in a “medically fragile state” when she entered the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement facility in San Antonio, Texas. She was given a surgical procedure and then suffered complications that eventually led to her death.
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