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An 8-year-old illegal immigrant girl died Wednesday while in Border Patrol custody, the agency announced, saying she suffered a “medical emergency” that cost her life.
Homeland Security didn’t say what the emergency was, but did say she and her family were being held at the Border Patrol’s station in Harlingen, Texas, at the time.
The girl was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The death is likely to draw new attention to the chaos at the southern border, where all-time record numbers of illegal immigrants surged in last week ahead of the end of the expiration of the Title 42 pandemic expulsion authority.
