“The agency knows this is happening, and they’re turning away from the problem,”
in Border Patrol custody three times on the day of her death due to vomiting, stomach pains, and a suspected seizure. The girl’s mother, Mabel Alvarez Benedicks, told the media that agents repeatedly ignored her pleas to hospitalize her daughter, who had sickle cell anemia and a history of heart problems.
CBP did not respond to requests for comment regarding its oversight of the area, but if the agency is detaining people in the open-air region, TEDS standards ostensibly still require that CBP provide migrants with basic care, including food, water, shelter, and restroom accommodations. According to the complaint, if not for local non-government organizations disseminating food and water, migrants in the region would starve.
One advocate who provided a declaration for the complaint encountered a 29-year-old pregnant Somali woman who vomited repeatedly but was not given medical attention. Rios encountered a Jamaican woman who suffered a miscarriage after being kidnapped and raped in Mexico. She was in “excruciating pain,” according to Rios, but agents repeatedly denied her medical attention. In another case, Rios documented an infant who was listless, vomiting, and had stopped breastfeeding.
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