A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy dies on in US Border Patrol custody, making him the fifth Guatemalan minor to die at the US-Mexico border since December
Honduran asylum seeker Suelen and four-year-old daughter Breanna board a bus with fellow migrant families recently released from detention in McAllen, Texas, U.S., May 17, 2019.
Early on Sunday morning, Hernandez told staff at the central processing station where he was being held that he was not feeling well, a CBP official told reporters. He was diagnosed with the flu and transferred to the Weslaco Border Patrol Station in south Texas later that day to separate him from others at the processing station in the Rio Grande Valley, the official said.
"The men and women of US Customs and Border Protection are saddened by the tragic loss of this young man and our condolences are with his family," said Acting CBP Commissioner John Sanders. "CBP is committed to the health, safety and humane treatment of those in our custody." That has in turn strained US border facilities, which are the first stop for migrants after they are detained. Reuters photos taken last week showed adults and children outside the US Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, sleeping on the ground and rigging up makeshift awnings with reflective blankets to shelter form the sun.
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