16-year-old Guatemalan boy falls ill and dies after transfer to U.S. border shelter
A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without his parents fell ill while in federal custody and died Tuesday after spending several days in intensive care at a hospital in Texas, U.S. Health and Human Services said Wednesday.
“The government of Guatemala laments the death of this young Guatemalan and offers its condolences to the family,” the statement said. Officials are working to repatriate the teen’s remains to Guatemala. HHS spokeswoman Evelyn Stauffer said Customs and Border Protection clinicians examined the teenager and cleared him for transfer to the HHS shelter. CBP officials declined to say when he crossed the border nor how long he was in agency custody before he was transferred to the shelter. When he arrived at the shelter on the night of April 20, the teen “did not note any health concerns,” officials said.
The Nueces County medical examiner’s office and a spokesman for Driscoll Children’s Hospital said they did not have information about the cause of death. On Wednesday, the White House sent Congress a $4.5 billion emergency spending request for humanitarian aid and border security, saying the border influx is “threatening lives.”
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