US border crisis: Sixth migrant child dies in immigration detention
has died in US custody, it has emerged, bringing the total number of migrant children to have died after being detained by border authorities in the last eight months to six. Mark Weber, a spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services, said the girl was “medically fragile,” with a history of congenital heart defects. She died in September 2018. Mr Weber says the child entered the custody of an Office of Refugee Resettlement in San Antonio, Texas on 4 March, 2018. He said that complications from an unspecified surgical ...
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