- An 8-year-old girl from Panama has died at a Border Patrol station Wednesday, the second death of a child from Latin America in U.S. government custody in two weeks.
- The girl and her family were being held in Harlingen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the busiest corridors for migrant crossings, the Border Patrol’s parent agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said.
- The girl experienced “ a medical emergency ” and died at a hospital, the agency said. An autopsy has been ordered, said Jesus T. “Chuy” Garcia, Jr., the local judge presiding in the case.
Trending
8-Year-Old Girl Dies In Biden’s Border Patrol Custody In Texas
FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has now learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills,Pool, File)
