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Seven-year-old girl who died at border did not receive medical care for 90 minutes
The death of Jakelin Caal raises questions about the Border Patrol's procedures and the Trump administration's policy of delaying migrants at legal ports of entry.
Dec. 14, 2018 / 1:55 PM ET / Updated Dec. 14, 2018 / 6:34 PM ET
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By Julia Ainsley, Jacob Soboroff and Cal Perry
WASHINGTON — A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection waited an hour and a half before receiving emergency medical care after showing symptoms, officials said Friday.
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin, whose name was confirmed by CBP and the Guatemalan Embassy Friday afternoon, was apprehended with her father after crossing the border illegally into New Mexico with her family and more than 160 other migrants. Medical personnel are not staffed in the remote area where they were held, known as Antelope Wells, the officials said.
How disgusting of you and your fellow Moonbats to exploit the tragic and entirely preventable death of this young girl...which was caused by the reckless behavior of her father.
The girl was in our ICE detention, where her situation most likely went unnoticed, much like the infant in the OP's article. Trump's rx is to not allow them in at all, do consider many are coming to 'give their kids up' to the USA.
So our choices are, watch them die on our boarders, or allow them into overwhelmed understaffed detention facilities where many may also die
~S~
Which just further underscores the risk of illegal immigration. We don't have the resources to staff thousands of people of questionable health conditions crossing the border illegally.
The proximate cause of her death is her dad's reckless behavior of entering the country illegally.
Period.
End of story.