Another child killed during his detention by US immigration | New

The boy was eight years old and from Guatemala. He was in a detention center where immigrants are temporarily trying to enter the United States without papers.

US border control states: "On December 24, a patrol officer noticed that the child appeared to be sick, his father and son were taken to the hospital and a diagnosis of colds was made. The child was kept for an hour and a half under observation, then released in the middle of the afternoon with a prescription to take an antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory. child was nauseated and vomiting and was taken back to hospital. "

The boy died shortly after midnight at the hospital in Alamogordo, New Mexico, about 140 kilometers from the hospital. Mexican border.

] The US government said that he still did not know what had caused the boy's death, but border control said he would investigate what had happened and that he had already warned the Guatemalan government, which is the second child to die in detention. this month.

On December 8, Jakelin Caal, a seven-year-old Guatemalan national, died of an illness and was taken to hospital.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump asks Congress for money to build a wall on the Mexican border. The democratic opposition does not accept. The stalemate left part of the government without money and paralyzed four days ago.