'The child and her family were in custody at the Harlingen Station where she experienced a medical emergency,' U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. Authorities are now investigating and DHS' inspector general has been notified.
"The child and her family were in custody at the Harlingen Station where she experienced a medical emergency," U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. "Emergency Medical Services were called to the station and transported her to the local hospital where she was pronounced dead."
This appears to be the first death of a child in border custody since 2019, when the death of a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy led several politicians to decry the Trump administration's immigration policies and vow to investigate. Administration officials had been relying on a policy that allowed them to quickly release migrants without court notices to prevent what they said would be dangerous overcrowding. A federal court in Florida laterHomeland Security officials said this week that since the expiration of Title 42, border agents have encountered about 4,400 migrants a day, down from more than 10,000 per day early last week.
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