Current Events > 7 year old dies in border patrol custody

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https://wapo.st/2S4tyMY

A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.

The childs death, which has not been previously reported, is likely to intensify scrutiny of detention conditions at Border Patrol stations and CBP facilities that are increasingly overwhelmed by large numbers of families with children seeking asylum in the United States.

According to CBP records, the girl and her father were taken into custody at around 10 p.m. on Dec. 6 south of Lordsburg, N.M., as part of a group of 163 people who approached U.S. agents to turn themselves in.

More than eight hours later, the child began having seizures at 6:25 a.m., CBP records show. Emergency responders who arrived soon after measured her body temperature at 105.7 degrees, and according to a statement from CBP, she reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.

After a helicopter flight to an El Paso hospital, the child went into cardiac arrest and was revived, according to the agency. However, the child did not recover and died at the hospital less than 24 hours after being transported, CBP said.

The agency did not released the name of the girl or her father, but he remains in El Paso awaiting a meeting with Guatemalan consular officials, according to CBP. The agency is investigating the incident to ensure appropriate policies were followed, the agency said.

Food and water are typically provided to migrants in Border Patrol custody, and it wasnt immediately clear Thursday if the girl received provisions and a medical exam during the middle of the night, prior to the onset of seizures.

Our sincerest condolences go out to the family of the child, CBP spokesman Andrew Meehan said in a statement to The Washington Post.

Border Patrol agents took every possible step to save the childs life under the most trying of circumstances, Meehan said. As fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, we empathize with the loss of any child.

Though much of the political and media attention has focused in recent weeks on migrant caravans arriving at the Tijuana-San Diego border, large numbers of Central Americans continue to cross the border into Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The groups sometimes spend days in smugglers stash houses or walking through remote areas with little food or water prior to reaching the border.

Arrests of migrants traveling as family groups have skyrocketed this year, and Homeland Security officials say court rulings that limit their ability to keep families in detention have produced a catch and release system that encourages migrants to bring children as a shield against detention and deportation.

In November, Border Patrol agents apprehended a record 25,172 family unit members on the Southwest border including 11,489 in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector in south Texas and 6,434 in the El Paso sector, which covers far west Texas and all of New Mexico.

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Sounds like it was the family's fault for not giving her food and water for several days while they were illegally trying border hop
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Probably because her parents dragged her halfway up the world on foot.
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Trumps fault i blame him
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Popcorn?
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I suppose it's illegal for the Border Agents to give food and water to people.
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Middle hope posted...

Sounds like it was the family's fault for not giving her food and water for several days

008Zulu posted...

I suppose it's illegal for the Border Agents to give food and water to people.

The food and water is probably what caused her to go into shock and die. You can't just eat and drink when you have had nothing for days. You need an IV.
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something something Christian values something pro life something something
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And of course the disgusting pos blame the family instead of the border patrol agents.

Alphamon posted...

And of course the disgusting pos blame the family instead of the border patrol agents.

You have no idea what her parents made her do on the way up here. Alot of disgusting shit these families make the kids do coming up here.
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Alphamon posted...

And of course the disgusting pos blame the family instead of the border patrol agents.

Did they not drag her halfway up the world on foot without food or water for days at a time?
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Alphamon posted...

And of course the disgusting pos blame the family instead of the border patrol agents.

The border patrol didn't allow her to starve and dehydrate over the course of several days, while making her walk through a desert. Her family did.

Alphamon posted...

And of course the disgusting pos blame the family instead of the border patrol agents.

I mean, I'm against detaining children and jazz, but it does sound like this wasn't border patrol's fault.
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KillerKhan420 posted...

Alot of disgusting s*** these families make the kids do coming up here.

Idk what you're trying to imply here.
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Of course you lunatics are overjoyed she's dead.

That's why you voted for Trump. You can't stand foreigners coming in.

Alphamon posted...

Of course you lunatics are overjoyed she's dead.

That's why you voted for Trump. You can't stand foreigners coming in.

Nobody is overjoyed. Most people seem to be taking issue with Antifar's bait contextless title. Sure, she did die in Border Patrol custody. Due to the direct actions of her own parents.
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I got no problems with immigrants, but they gotta come in the proper way like everyone else and not try to queue jump by forcing themselves in with a sob story.
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Alphamon posted...

Of course you lunatics are overjoyed she's dead.

That's why you voted for Trump. You can't stand foreigners coming in.

Where do you get that?
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ThePrinceFish posted...

Nobody is overjoyed.

Party that separates children from their parents is absolutely overjoyed. Who are you kidding?

This specific case doesn't sound like border patrol's fault. I mean I don't think they helped but it's pretty clear that she was in a really bad shape before being taken into custody.
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Alphamon posted...

ThePrinceFish posted...

Nobody is overjoyed.

Party that separates children from their parents is absolutely overjoyed. Who are you kidding?

You're seeing ghosts. Nobody is celebrating her death in this topic. Maybe try to get help for yourself.
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RiderofHogs posted...

Alphamon posted...

Of course you lunatics are overjoyed she's dead.

That's why you voted for Trump. You can't stand foreigners coming in.

Where do you get that?

I think he got into the wrong stuff
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pegusus123456 posted...

I mean, I'm against detaining children and jazz, but it does sound like this wasn't border patrol's fault.

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ThePrinceFish posted...

Alphamon posted...

Of course you lunatics are overjoyed she's dead.

That's why you voted for Trump. You can't stand foreigners coming in.

Nobody is overjoyed. Most people seem to be taking issue with Antifar's bait contextless title. Sure, she did die in Border Patrol custody. Due to the direct actions of her own parents.

Exactly how much context do you want him to put into an 80 character title
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PleaseClap posted...

ThePrinceFish posted...

Alphamon posted...

Of course you lunatics are overjoyed she's dead.

That's why you voted for Trump. You can't stand foreigners coming in.

Nobody is overjoyed. Most people seem to be taking issue with Antifar's bait contextless title. Sure, she did die in Border Patrol custody. Due to the direct actions of her own parents.

Exactly how much context do you want him to put into an 80 character title

Even adding that it was of dehydration and exhaustion like the title of the original article would have made it more apparent that it was the journey through the desert that caused her death rather than anything the Border Patrol did.
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Alphamon posted...

And of course the disgusting pos blame the family instead of the border patrol agents.

This literally happens on the border all the time

ThePrinceFish posted...

PleaseClap posted...

ThePrinceFish posted...

Alphamon posted...

Of course you lunatics are overjoyed she's dead.

That's why you voted for Trump. You can't stand foreigners coming in.

Nobody is overjoyed. Most people seem to be taking issue with Antifar's bait contextless title. Sure, she did die in Border Patrol custody. Due to the direct actions of her own parents.

Exactly how much context do you want him to put into an 80 character title

Even adding that it was of dehydration and exhaustion like the title of the original article would have made it more apparent that it was the journey through the desert that caused her death rather than anything the Border Patrol did.

Not sure about that. She arrived with a 105 degree fever so she probably had a staph infection that was getting untreated. She might have died regardless.
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Conservatrolls in denial about heinous acts committed by border patrol

Must be a day
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Genocet_10-325 posted...

Conservatrolls in denial about heinous acts committed by border patrol

Must be a day

This topic is specifically about this one girl. Not the entire border patrol.
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Alphamon posted...

And of course the disgusting pos blame the family instead of the border patrol agents.

Fuck outta here, if I drug my kid through the shit her family did and put his life in danger, social services would take him.... Im sorry what is you people call it now.. separate him from me and my ass would be in custody facing endangerment charges.
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Trump's America. Forcing kids to take drugs and now they're just straight up killing them

Her parents should be imprisoned
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I wonder how many minorities Trump's administration has to kill before people do something
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Those border patrol agents should be tried for murder and Trump should be held responsible as well. Theyre all pieces of s***.

They get off on locking up & murdering children. Anybody who wears a border patrol badge should be ashamed of themselves and their families should be ashamed of them.
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iPhone_7 posted...

Those border patrol agents should be tried for murder and Trump should be held responsible as well. Theyre all pieces of s***.

They get off on locking up & murdering children. Anybody who wears a border patrol badge should be ashamed of themselves and their families should be ashamed of them.

the girl came into their custody on the verge of death and it sounds like they tried everything to save her. it sounds like the parent's fault. your not supposed to force march a 7 year old across countryside with no food or water

btw it's Obama that set that law in motion not Trump. so try OBama for murder

Could the border agents receive some sort of medical training or have medical resources/personnel to avoid this tragic situation happening again?
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Alphamon posted...

ThePrinceFish posted...

Nobody is overjoyed.

Party that separates children from their parents is absolutely overjoyed. Who are you kidding?

You mean the Liberals? Seeing as how this was happening under Obama and all.

And this is the parents fault most definitely.
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iPhone_7 posted...

Those border patrol agents should be tried for murder and Trump should be held responsible as well. Theyre all pieces of s***.

They get off on locking up & murdering children. Anybody who wears a border patrol badge should be ashamed of themselves and their families should be ashamed of them.

Trololol

There is no way you can actually believe any of what you actually typed. If the border patrol agents had locked her up in a cage and left her there to starve and dehydrate then you might have a point. But seeing as that isn't what happened, you're comment is either blatant trolling or pure stupidity.
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GregShmedley posted...

Genocet_10-325 posted...

Conservatrolls in denial about heinous acts committed by border patrol

Must be a day

Youre smarter than this.

You are talking about a guy who self-admitting made 300 alts for this site..
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The border guards only had her in custody for 8 hours and they rushed her to the hospital, I feel like the responsibility is on the parents here.

Kind of a dumb bait topic tbh, cmon antifar
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MuayThai85 posted...

You mean the Liberals? Seeing as how this was happening under Obama and all.

And this is the parents fault most definitely.

No it didn't.

Jfc. Why do conservatives lie about this all the time?

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jun/06/what-you-need-know-about-trump-administrations-zer/

sounds to me like she was already sick to begin with
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DirkDiggles posted...

GregShmedley posted...

Genocet_10-325 posted...

Conservatrolls in denial about heinous acts committed by border patrol

Must be a day

Youre smarter than this.

You are talking about a guy who self-admitting made 300 alts for this site..

...and blamed it on everyone else being triggered and banning him then any of his own posting.
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Zikten posted...

btw it's Obama that set that law in motion not Trump.

No, he did not. She came with her parents and the Obama policy didn't separate families.

Anyways she died before she could be thrown in a cage. Honestly her parents really fucked up.
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RiderofHogs posted...

Alphamon posted...

Of course you lunatics are overjoyed she's dead.

That's why you voted for Trump. You can't stand foreigners coming in.

Where do you get that?

It's called projection. He's happy he can accuse Trump and Border Patrol of this and not the negligence of the parents not feeding her or giving her water for a week as they trek through a desert. Either that or they are under the delusion that 6 hours is enough time to course correct organ failure.
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