An infant girl died last month after she was apprehended along with her teen mother when they both crossed the border into Arizona, officials said.
The mother went ahead of a group she was with after "she noticed her daughter started having difficulty breathing and pain," U.S. Customs and Border Protection saidBrian Brant is an Associate Editor, Human Interest, at PEOPLE. His work has previously appeared 1010 WINS/WCBS 880 and NewsBreak.A man looks at the US/Mexico border fence covered in barbed/concertina wire from a house on the Mexican side, as seen from Nogales, Arizona, on February 9, 2019.
"The agent reported he observed the mother holding an infant who was covered in a blanket," the CBP's news release added. "The agent instructed the mother with child to get into his transport van and proceeded to drive towards the Nogales Border Patrol Station."A review of video from within Nogales Border Patrol Station by CBP’s OPR revealed that just after 3 a.m.
'Haunting Cries of Babies and Toddlers': Inside a Migrant Border Facility at Center of National Controversy "The mother told OPR special agents when she first entered the transport van, she observed her daughter was still alive, and could hear her crying and breathing," the agency shared, adding that as she was being transported the she told an agent that "her daughter was in distress, almost dead, and needed to go to the hospital, but she was unsure if the agent was able to understand her.
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