DHS inspector general finds 'no misconduct' in deaths of two Guatemalan migrant children
EL PASO — Year-long investigations found "no misconduct or malfeasance" by U.S. immigration officials in the deaths of two Guatemalan children who were in U.S. Border Patrol custody last year, according to inspector general reports released Friday.
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general released one-page reports in the deaths of Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7, and Felipe Gómez Alonzo, 8. The children are not identified by name in the reports, but the details match their descriptions and the circumstances of their deaths in December 2018.
Each report concluded that the “investigation found no misconduct or malfeasance by DHS personnel.”
Officials have said they were the first children to die in Border Patrol custody in a decade. Three other Guatemalan children, ranging in age from 2 to 16, died after being taken into Border Patrol custody in April and May. DHS officials have not released results of internal investigations into those deaths.
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