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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Alejandro Serrano

U.S. Senate investigation of migrant child’s death finds poor medical care at border protection facilities

Unaccompanied minor asylum seekers are apprehended by Customs and Border Protection after crossing the border in Roma on Aug. 3, 2021.
Young asylum seekers are apprehended by Customs and Border Protection agents after crossing the Texas-Mexico border in Roma on Aug. 3, 2021. (Credit: Sophie Park/The Texas Tribune)

Poor medical care that preceded the 2023 death of an 8-year-old girl at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Harlingen “was not aberrant but consistent” with other incidents of inadequate medical care received by vulnerable migrants in federal custody, a U.S. Senate panel concluded in a report released Friday.

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