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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Mon May 20, 2019, 01:01 PM May 2019

More sanctity of life:

HOUSTON — The U.S. government says a 16-year-old teenager from Guatemala died Monday at a Border Patrol station in South Texas, becoming the fifth death of a migrant child since December.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that Border Patrol apprehended the teenager in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley on May 13. The agency says the teenager was found unresponsive this morning during a welfare check.

The agency did not say why the teenager had been detained for a week, but said he was "due for placement" in a facility for youth operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A 2-year-old child died last week after he and his mother were detained by the Border Patrol.


https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/05/20/us/ap-us-immigration-migrant-deaths.html?partner=IFTTT

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