Toddler dies in U.S. custody after being detained at border

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


The 2-year-old is the fourth known minor to have died in custody since December.

May 15, 2019, 10:30 PM CDT
By Associated Press

HOUSTON — A Guatemalan official says a 2½-year-old migrant child has died after crossing the border, becoming the fourth minor known to have died after being detained by the Border Patrol since December.

Tekandi Paniagua, the consul for Guatemala in Del Rio, Texas, said Wednesday that the boy had entered the United States with his parent at El Paso, Texas, in early April. Paniagua said the boy had a high fever and difficulty breathing, and authorities took him to a children's hospital where he was diagnosed with pneumonia.

The boy remained hospitalized for about a month before dying Tuesday. The Washington Post first reported his death.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection didn't respond to a request for comment Wednesday.



Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-dies-u-s-custody-after-being-detained-border-n1006251

[912gdm]

1. How is this late breaking?

this happened last month. definitely past the 24 requirements for LBN forum.

[brer cat]

2. Are you more concerned with requirements for posting

than the content of the post? The account in the OP and also the WAPO article referenced as the first reporting of this story are both dated May 15.

[SunSeeker]

7. It appears to have only been revealed today. CNN ran the story today.

Guatemalan toddler dies in US custody, report says.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/05/16/us/guatemala-toddler-death-us-custody/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

[RandiFan1290]

8. Interesting attempt to hide this news.

Welcome back to DU!

[SunSeeker]

26. LOL

[brer cat]

3. This is terribly sad.

[pnwmom]

4. But he's not a fetus so they don't care. n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Exactly!

[safeinOhio]

9. But he did have a heart beat....

or that only applies to citizen babies?

[tanyev]

11. He's not a white 'Murican fetus so they don't care.

[SunSeeker]

6. K & R for exposure.

[90-percent]

10. I'm confused

If the child arrived with pneumonia and was hospitalized (quickly?) for a month it looks like US authorities did what they could to restore his health. (Assuming hospitals would do that in the case of this baby)

In this case the US authorities seem less cruel and medieval than all the other refugees they inflict good ole fashioned USA USA cruelty to?

-90% Jimmy

[SunSeeker]

25. This shit did not happen before Trump stopped processing asylum seekers.

Trump illegally forces these asylum seekers in dangerous, unsanitary makeshift camps in Mexico. Where they get sick and have no healthcare.

By the time their number is called by CBP to process their asylum request, many are in bad shape. Or, seeing their kids' health deteriorate, desperate parents cross the border illegally rather than continue to wait. That's what it appears happened here. 

Trump created this crisis. 

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/28/18089048/border-asylum-trump-metering-legally-ports

[Initech]

12. Well so much for being "pro life"!

[hack89]

14. They took him to a hospital

where they treated him for a month. What else where they suppose to do?

[Initech]

16. The authorities did the right thing.

But what I was getting at is that Trump has a stronghold with the pro life crowd and many of them support keeping kids locked up like this. It's scary.

[SunSeeker]

19. No, the authorities are breaking the law by refusing to process asylum seekers.

They are illegally slow-walking asylum requests, forcing the migrants to live in dangerous, unsanitary makeshift camps along the border inside Mexico waiting to present themselves for asylum.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/28/18089048/border-asylum-trump-metering-legally-ports

[Initech]

24. No I agree it's totally fucked up.

And I cannot fathom for the life of me how people who supposedly call themselves Christian support this monster. He's the personification of evil.

[SunSeeker]

18. Trump should not make asylum seekers wait in hellish conditions in Mexico.

The law is that asylum seekers are supposed to be able to present themselves at any port of entry and have their asylum requests processed. Trump is not allowing that, forcing asylum seekers to huddle for weeks or months in unsanitary, crowded conditions in makeshift camps along the border inside Mexico, waiting for their number to be called to present themselves for asylum. I'm surprised more kids haven't died. But I imagine we don't hear about the ones who die in the camps in Mexico waiting to have their asylum requests received.

Trump created this humanitarian disaster.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/28/18089048/border-asylum-trump-metering-legally-ports

[LanternWaste]

21. Process asylum seekers in timely manner.

"What else where they suppose to do?"

A pretty short-sighted question. At best.

Process asylum seekers in timely manner.. Rather than finding excuses not to do so. But I get the consistent narrative... righteous Americanism at the expense of all else. I'm guessing you may even pretend otherwise. Which given the other attempts, will be most bemusing indeed.

[hack89]

22. You're funny

Don’t ever change.

[dalton99a]

13. Kick

[AlexSFCA]

15. He was treated at a hospital for a month!

Authorities did the right thing (surprisingly). That’s the real story here. He would have died sooner on the other side of the border.

[SunSeeker]

20. Trump illegally forces these asylum seekers in dangerous, unsanitary makeshift camps in Mexico.

Where they get sick and have no healthcare. By the time their number is called by CBP to process their asylum request, many are in bad shape. Or, seeing their kids' health deteriorate, desperate parents cross the border illegally rather than continue to wait. That's what it appears happened here.

Trump created this crisis.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/28/18089048/border-asylum-trump-metering-legally-ports

[rainin]

17. The same number who died in Benghazi. Hmm. Republicans are either modern nazis or American Taliban.

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"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me" Matthew 25:35 (ESV).

[Marthe48]

23. His parents got him to the border

and i.c.e. murdered him. You inhuman bastards.

[dewsgirl]

27. Just so devastatingly heart wrenching.

[EX500rider]

28. So ICE snuck into the hospital and "murdered him", that's your story?

Sounds like he spent a month in the hospital to me and did not pull through. It happens.

[ManiacJoe]

29. You obviously did not read the article.

Surprisingly, the BP agents did the right thing in this case.