The Trump administration is not to blame for the "tragic" death of a 7-year-old girl in the custody of the Border Patrol, according to the White House

A White House spokesman on Friday "tragic situation" the death of a 7-year-old girl incarcerated in a border control patrol, but said that the Trump administration was not to blame and called on Congress to "discourage migrants ". long hikes to the southern border of the United States.

US Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday that the Guatemalan girl died of dehydration and shock after being arrested last week for her illegal passage from Mexico to the United States, with her father and a large group of migrants along the New Mexico Desert

Journalist Hogan Gidley at the White House asked a reporter if the government "took responsibility for the death of the girl": "Is the Administration takes responsibility for a parent to take a child to Mexico country? No. "

According to CBP records, the girl and her father were arrested around 10 pm December 6, south of Lordsburg, New York, as part of a group of 163 people who approached US agents to surrender.

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More than eight hours later, the child began to have seizures, says CBP. Emergency responders, who arrived shortly thereafter, measured her body temperature at 105.7 degrees. According to a statement from CBP, she "apparently has not eaten or eaten water for several days".

She died less than 24 hours after being transported by helicopter to a hospital in El Paso.

On Friday, El The Paso County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that he had performed an autopsy on Jackeline Caal, 7 years old. The office said it could not disclose any information before the autopsy report was written, a process that could take six to eight weeks.

"This is a horrible and tragic situation," said Gidley. "Obviously, our heart goes out to the family and to all those who suffer from all the perils and perils they see so often when they cross that threshold from the southern border."

Gidley stated that the death was "100% preventable" And called for congressional action.

"If we could simply come together and adopt common sense laws to dissuade people from getting out of the border and encourage them to do it right, in the legal way, from the deaths, the assaults, the rapes, child trafficking, human trafficking, all this would stop. And we hope the Democrats will join the President. "