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US delegation seeks more details on Guatemalan boy’s death

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Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are taking aim at President Donald Trump’s insistence that a wall along the U. S.-Mexico border will help alleviate the immigration crisis and bolster security.
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus took aim Monday at President Donald Trump’s insistence that a wall along the U. S.-Mexico border will help alleviate the immigration crisis and bolster security.
Caucus Chairman U. S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas argued during a visit to southern New Mexico that the administration’s policies are exacerbating what has been described as a humanitarian crisis. Castro and his fellow Democratic colleagues pointed to two Guatemalan children who were ill and died in December while in federal custody.
Freshman U. S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small of New Mexico, who represents a sprawling district that includes a portion of the border, said there have been some improvements made at Border Patrol stations in the remote region since the deaths but more needs to be done.
«We still need to have medical equipment in all of our facilities in the most rural reaches of the border, to make sure that we have a Border Patrol that’s responding to the changing circumstances that we continue to see, to make sure that we have a nimble agency that’s able to ensure our border security and also reflect our values,» Torres Small said.

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