El Paso, NM hospitals do medical checks after 2nd migrant child dies in CBP custody

[TexasTowelie]

Medical facilities in El Paso County and New Mexico have screened 450 migrant children since Christmas Day — the day after a second child died in U.S. custody.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection ordered medical exams of all children in U.S. custody after the Christmas Eve death of 8-year-old Felipe Alonzo-Gomez. Another child from Guatemala, 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin, died in U.S. custody earlier this month.

Hospital leaders in El Paso and Southern New Mexico met with federal immigration officials Wednesday morning to coordinate the new medical checks, El Paso County Commissioner Vince Perez said.

Representatives from U.S. Customs and Border Protection met with members of the Border Regional Advisory Council, which represents regional medical providers in El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson and Southern New Mexico.

Read more: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2018/12/26/el-paso-nm-hospitals-cbp-medical-checks-second-migrant-child-dies-ice-custody/2416486002/

[elleng]

1. I've wondered about those NM medical facilities.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Probably around Las Cruces and Alamogordo,

with Carlsbad a bit farther away.

[elleng]

4. Yes, Alamogordo surely,

but does that mean their services are so bad they don't recognize serious problems in infants/little kids? They sent them away after 'treatment.'

[irisblue]

2. That is alot of kids to have seen in 48 hours

I'm not sure I'm believing that.