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TODAYS TOP HEADLINES The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Wednesday, December 26, 2018 3A US: 2nd child dies in immigration custody Boy showed signs of potential illness’ Monday, was taken with his father to a hospital in Alamogordo, New Mexico CHRISTIAN TORRES I Associated Press An agent from the border patrol, observes near the Mexico-US border fence, on the Mexican side, separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, N.M., on Jan. 25, 2017. BY NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press HOUSTON — An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in govern ment custody in New Mexico early Tuesday, U.S. immigration authori ties said, marking the second death of an immigrant child in detention this month. The death came during an ongo ing dispute over border security and with a partial government shutdown underway over Presi dent Donald Trump’s request for border wall funding. U.S. Customs and Border Protec tion said the boy showed “signs of potential illness” on Monday and was taken with his father to a hos pital in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he was diagnosed with a cold and a fever. The boy was pre scribed amoxicillin and Ibuprofen and released Monday afternoon after being held 90 minutes for observation, the agency said. The boy was returned to the hos pital Monday evening with nausea and vomiting and died there just after midnight, CBP said. CBP has not yet confirmed when or where the father and son entered the United States or how long they were detained, say ing only in its statement that the boy had been “previously appre hended” by its agents. The agency said the cause of the boy’s death has not been deter mined and that it has notified the Department of Homeland Secu rity’s inspector general and the Guatemalan government. A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died earlier this month after being apprehended by border agents in New Mexico. The body of the girl, Jakelin Caal, was returned to her family’s remote village Monday for burial Tuesday. The White House referred ques tions about the latest case to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, CBP’s parent agency. CBP officers and the Border Patrol remain on the job despite the shutdown. According to Guatemala’s for eign ministry, the father and son entered the U.S. at El Paso, Texas, on Dec. 18, then were taken to the Border Patrol’s Alamogordo sta tion Sunday. Alamogordo is about 90 miles from El Paso. CBP typically detains immi grants for no more than a few days when they cross the border before either releasing them or turning them over to U.S. Immi gration and Customs Enforcement for longer-term detention. Agency guidelines say immigrants gener ally shouldn’t be detained for more than 72 hours in CBP holding facili ties, which are usually smaller and have fewer services than ICE’s detention centers. Parents and children together are almost always released quickly due to limited space in ICE’s fam ily detention facilities. A CBP spokesman on Tuesday did not respond to questions about the ministry’s statement. The hospital, the Gerald Cham pion Regional Medical Center, declined to comment, citing pri vacy regulations. CBP promised “an indepen dent and thorough review of the circumstances.” Trump: ‘I can’t tell you when’ government will reopen Associated Press WASHINGTON - Presi dent Donald Trump said Tuesday that parts of the federal government will stay closed until Democrats agree to put up more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border to deter criminal elements. He said he’s open to calling the wall something else as long as he ends up with an actual wall. In a Christmas appearance in the Oval Office, Trump issued a lengthy defense of his desire for a wall, saying it’s the only way to stop drugs and human traffickers from entering the country. In a nod to the politi cal stakes he’s facing, Trump said he wants the wall by “election time” in 2020. The promise of a border wall was a central compo nent of Trump’s presidential campaign. “I can’t tell you when the government’s going to be open. I can tell you it’s not going to be open until we have a wall or fence, whatever they’d like to call it,” Trump said, referring to Dems who oppose walling off the border. “I’ll call it whatever they want, but it’s all the same thing,” he told reporters after participating in a holi day video conference with representatives from all five branches of the military sta tioned in Alaska, Bahrain, Guam and Qatar. Trump argued that drug flows and human trafficking can only be stopped by a wall. “We can’t do it without a barrier. We can’t do it with out a wall,” he said. “The only way you’re going to do it is to have a physical barrier, meaning a wall. And if you don’t have that then we’re just not opening” the government. Democrats oppose spend ing money on a wall, pre ferring instead to pump the dollars into fencing, technol ogy and other means of con trolling access to the border. Trump argued that Demo crats oppose a wall only because he is for one. The stalemate over how much to spend and how to spend it caused the partial government shutdown that began Saturday following a lapse in funding for depart ments and agencies that make up about 25 percent of the government. Some 800,000 gov ernment workers are affected. Many are on the job but must wait until after the shutdown to be paid again. Trump claimed many workers “have said to me and com municated, ‘stay out until you get the funding for the wall.’ These federal work ers want the wall. The only one that doesn’t want the wall are the Democrats.” Trump didn’t say how he’s hearing from federal workers, excluding those he appointed to jobs or who work with him in the White House. But many rank-and-file work ers have gone to social media with stories of the financial hardship they expect to face because of the shutdown, now in its fourth day. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California said Trump “wanted the shut down, but he seems not to know how to get himself out of it.” Trump had said he’d be “proud” to shut down the government over the wall. He also had said Mexico would pay for the wall. Mex ico has refused. Trump followed up on a tweet in which he said he “just gave out a 115 mile long contract for another large section of the Wall in Texas.” Neither the White House nor the Department of Homeland Security responded to follow up questions. The reference to 115 miles was unclear. Trump may have been referring to 33 miles of construction in the Rio Grande Valley that is set to begin in February, part of a total of 84 miles that Congress funded in March, according to the Department of Home land Security. 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