US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it would require help from other agencies to provide healthcare for every child in its custody amid the death of an 8-year-boy who had been detained after he and his father tried to cross the US-Mexico border illegally.
CBP issued a statement stressing that the death of the boy, identified in a statement from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus as Felipe Alonzo-Gomez from Guatemala, as well as the earlier death of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl named Jakelin Caal, were rare occurrences that were devastating to the agency.
