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In the United States, immigration authorities have begun medical examinations on all minor immigrants in remand custody after the death of a second Guatemalan child on Tuesday (25 years) after being arrested for crossing the border illegally with Mexico.
Medical exams will be a priority for children under the age of 10, the US Customs and Border Protection Bureau (CBP) announced on Wednesday.
On the night of December 24, an eight-year-old Guatemalan boy, identified as Felipe Gómez Alonzo, died as a result of an unknown cause in a hospital in the state of New Mexico. He had been in the custody of the border police for more than a week.
Government laws stipulate that immigrants must not be detained for more than 72 hours in CBP's premises, which are generally for temporary residence and have fewer resources than detention centers managed by police services. Immigration and immigration. Customs (ICE).
According to information provided by CBP, Gómez Alonzo and his father were arrested on December 18, five kilometers from an official point of entry into the country located on the bridge connecting the Texas city of El Paso (United States) and Ciudad Juarez (Mexico).
Both were detained in this center of the CBP for two days, then transferred to the agency's premises in El Paso, but as this building was congested, the child and father eventually been taken to the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico. .
On December 23, the child and his father arrived at Alamogordo, 90 miles from El Paso, and the next day, the minor was hospitalized because he was coughing and had "the shiny eyes".
At the Gerald Champion Regional Hospital in Alamogordo, the doctors determined that the child had a cold, then diagnosed a fever and decided to let her rest for an hour and a half at the observation to finally confirm the discharge with a order. take ibuprofen and amoxicillin.
However, the boy's health deteriorated: he began to have nausea and vomiting, so the migration officers brought him back to Gerald Champion Regional Hospital.
The boy's death is declared dead on the 24th at 11:48 pm (local time, Brasilia), according to CBP, which stated in principle that the child had died at Christmas.
This is the second minor who died in less than a month in the custody of US authorities, after the death of a young Guatemalan girl, Jakelin Caal Maquín, 7, on December 8 in a children's hospital in El Paso after illegally crossed the border with Mexico with his father.
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