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Migrant Child Dies in Customs and Border Patrol Custody Nine Days after Entering U.S.
Loaded on June 7, 2023
by Jo Ellen Nott
Filed under:
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Mail/Packages,
Juvenile Offenses/Offenders.
Location:
Texas.
by Jo Ellen Nott
Amid a record-breaking surge of migrants at the southern U.S. border, eight-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez, a medically fragile Honduran child, died in a hospital near Harlingen Station in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley on May 17, 2023,
The day after her family crossed …
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