A immigrant child 9-year-old died after suffering medical complications shortly after crossing the border from Mexico into Arizona, reported the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) it’s a statement.
According to the statement, an immigrant woman called 911 around 9:40 pm on June 15, when she was lost with her two youngest children in the desert near Tubac, Arizona, to report that her son was having seizures.
With the help of GPS coordinates, the National Guard Air Unit located the woman and her two children shortly after 10 pm in rugged terrain in the desert.
immigration authorities They have not identified the victim or disclosed his nationality.
The boy’s mother told authorities that her son “had no prior medical problems and believed that the heat contributed to his medical complications during the hike,” according to CBP.
About half an hour later, Tubac firefighters and Border Patrol agents found the family in a remote location where a helicopter could not land and difficult for an ambulance to access.
The boy had to be carried by first responders on foot before he could be transported to the Northwest Medical Center in Sahuarita.
Due to his condition, he was referred on June 16 to a hospital in Mesa, where he was diagnosed with “multi-organ failure and was placed on life support.”
That same day, Border Patrol informed the hospital that it was releasing the minor, his mother, and his other brother from their custody. On June 17, the little boy passed away after succumbing to his medical complications.
The migrant mother told CBP Office of Professional Responsibility agents that she and her children crossed into the United States with another unknown migrant in the early morning of June 15.
CBP says the case remains under investigation, but no other details were released.
CBP has launched a campaign to warn migrants about the high temperatures in the desert in the summer, which easily exceed 100 degrees F (37 degrees C).
The death of the minor occurs after the death of the Panamanian girl Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez, 8 years old and who suffered from anemia and heart disease.
The little girl died on May 17 in CBP custody at the facility in Harlingen, Texas, designed to hold migrants with contagious diseases.
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