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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.
Asked who received the
contract, Trump replied:
“Different people, different
people.”
He did say he envisions a
wall so tall, “like a three-story
building,” that only an Olym
pic champion would be able
to scale it. He also compared
Democrats’ treatment of him
over the wall to their defense
of James Comey after Trump
fired him as FBI director.
“It’s a disgrace what’s hap
pening in our country but,
other than that, I wish every
body a very merry Christ
mas,” he said.
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