8-year-old girl dies; she was in a detention center in Texas.

[RaiNews] Migrants, 8-year-old girl dies: she was in a custody center in Texas

An 8-year-old girl died Wednesday while she was in Border Patrol custody in Texas. The incident took place in a custody center in the border city of Harlingen in the Rio Grande Valley near the Gulf of Mexico. This was reported by the authorities of the US Customs and Border Protection. The little girl had a "medical emergency" and was taken to a nearby hospital, "where she was declared dead", says the note from the US authorities, which did not disclose her nationality or provide further information on what happened. An investigation has been opened into the case.



[LAPRESS][..] Border police had 28,717 people in custody on May 10, the day before pandemic-related asylum restrictions expired, double the number from two weeks earlier, according to a court statement. By Sunday, the number was down 23% to 22,259, still unusually high. The average stay time on Sunday was 77 hours, five hours more than the maximum allowed by agency policy.