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Internal report details rampant diarrhea among children at overcrowded border facility

Diarrhea was rampant, children were losing weight, and parents had to clean soiled clothing in sinks because guards would not provide them with clean items, mothers at an overcrowded Texas border facility in Laredo told Department of Homeland Security investigators last month, according to an internal report obtained by The…

Los Angeles Times

Newly Released Video Shows Border Patrol Shooting Man Who Called Authorities for Help

Agents claimed to see a gun that wasn't there. Video reveals nervous officers with a hunting mentality.

Reason

Ron DeSantis lays out his immigration plan, says he’ll end birthright citizenship as president

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system and ramp up border enforcement, vowing to end birthright citizenship, “repel the invasion” at the U.S. southern border and use the “levers at our disposal” to ensure cooperation from Mexico.

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Newly released body camera footage shows Border Patrol agents shooting a tribal member in Arizona

U.S. Customs and Border Protection have released body camera footage that shows Border Patrol agents were concerned that a tribal member they fatally shot last month many have been carrying a handgun

The Independent UK

Decrease in border crossings hasn’t slowed Republican criticism - Roll Call

A reported decline in unauthorized border crossings in the month since pandemic-era asylum restrictions expired hasn't slowed GOP criticism.

Roll Call

LA Latinos welcome 42 migrants bused from Texas as 'brothers and sisters'

A month and a half ago, Miguel Ángel got off a bus in Los Angeles. He had been detained in an immigration center since January, after Border Patrol officers caught him and the four other people he was traveling with in the Sonoran Desert.

Los Angeles Times

Family of girl who died in Border Patrol custody holds New York funeral, says they want justice

A funeral is planned for an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody after her family crossed the southern U.S. border last month

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Border agency reassigns chief medical officer after custody death of 8-year-old girl

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reassigned its chief medical officer after the in-custody death of an 8-year-old girl whose mother’s pleas for an ambulance were ignored despite a high fever and other ailments

The Independent UK

Homeland Security names Border Patrol veteran Jason Owens to lead the agency

The Biden administration named U.S. Border Patrol veteran Jason Owens to lead the agency, replacing retiring chief Raul Ortiz

The Independent UK

Biden names a Border Patrol veteran in Texas to be the agency's next chief

Jason Owens, the head of a busy Border Patrol sector in Del Rio, Texas, will lead the agency, the Biden administration announced. His predecessor is retiring at the end of the month.

WEKU

Title 42 and the real border surge

Out-trumping Trump at the border

Salon

Title 42 didn't result in a surge of migration, after all – but border communities are still facing record-breaking migration

U.S. government officials and media alike made widespread predictions that there would be a surge of migration across the U.S.-Mexico border in May 2023.

The Conversation

Migrant child died in Border Patrol custody after nurse denied at least three ambulance requests

Medical personnel at a border patrol station failed to contact on-call physicians and document medical encounters with an eight-year-old child who had worsenning flu symptoms

The Independent UK

Border patrol nurse REFUSED to review health of girl who died with 40 degree temperature

The Customs and Border Protection nurse failed to review the file of an 8-year-old girl with a chronic heart condition and rare blood disorder and reported denying multiple requests from the girl's mum for an ambulance at a Harlingen, Texas, CBP station

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The Independent UK

Despite flags, Border Patrol staff didn't review fragile 8-year-old girl's file before she died

An internal investigation finds that Border Patrol medical staff declined to review the file of an 8-year-old girl with a chronic heart condition and rare blood disorder before died on her ninth day in custody

The Independent UK

Court monitor warned of medical care issues at Border Patrol stations before girl’s death

A court-appointed monitor said in January that child migrants held in medical isolation may be overlooked when Border Patrol stations are too crowded

The Independent UK

4-year-old child is 'OK' after being dropped from high border wall in San Diego

The U.S. Border Patrol chief says a 4-year-old child is “remarkably" OK after being dropped into the United States from a high border wall from Tijuana, Mexico

The Independent UK

US Border Patrol says agents who killed man in Arizona were answering report of gunfire

Authorities say U.S. Border Patrol agents answering reports of gunfire shot and killed a man on a tribal reservation in southern Arizona after he threw something and abruptly raised his arm

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Reason

Border Patrol Shoots and Kills Arizona Man Who Called Them for Help

The FBI is investigating the shooting, but Supreme Court precedent from last year's Egbert v. Boule will make it nearly impossible for Raymond Mattia's family to find justice through civil courts.

The Independent UK

Death of 8-year-old girl in Border Patrol custody highlights challenges providing medical care

The death in Border Patrol custody of an 8-year-old Panamanian girl is the second child migrant fatality in two weeks under government supervision, raising questions about how prepared authorities are to address medical emergencies of people arriving after an often-exhausting journey

The Independent UK

8-year-old girl sought medical help 3 times on day she died, US immigration officials say

U.S. immigration officials say an 8-year-old girl who died last week in Border Patrol custody was seen at least three separate times by medical personnel on the day of her death

Daily Mirror

Tragic girl couldn't breathe and 'begged for her life' but border officials ignored her

Eight-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, from Panama, had an underlying heart condition and had undergone surgery in recent years before she died while in Border Patrol custody in Harlingen, Texas

The Independent UK

Mother of 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody says pleas for hospital care were denied

The mother of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody says agents repeatedly ignored pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter as she felt pain in her bones, struggled to breathe and was unable to walk

Daily Mirror

Aunt says US-Mexico border officials KNEW of girl's condition before her death in custody

Eight-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, from Panama, died on Wednesday, May 17, after suffering a 'medical emergency' while in Border Patrol custody in Harlingen, Texas

Al Jazeera

US reveals 8-year-old girl died in border patrol custody

The passing of a young Panamanian girl marks the second death of a minor in two weeks in US immigration custody.

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