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May 24, 2019

Family of Migrant Teen Who Died in U.S. Border Patrol Custody Demands Answers
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Meanwhile, the family of 16-year-old migrant Carlos Hernández Vásquez is
demanding answers about how the teen died this week in U.S. Border
Patrol custody after being diagnosed with the flu. This is the boy's
mother, Gilberta Vásquez, speaking from Guatemala.

Gilberta Vásquez: "There is no information about how he died. That is
what I want to know. And, so, what I am fighting for is for them to send
me the body as soon as possible, because why do they want to have him
there? Why do they want him? Because they didn't take care of him."

At least six migrant children have died over the last eight months after
they were arrested crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. Before last year,
no child died in immigration custody in over a decade.


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