Migrant girl born with heart problems dies in U.S. custody

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)FILE - Migrants are processed in a field after crossing the the Rio Grande at the United States-Mexico border, Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Brownsville, Texas.
45% : At least six children died during a roughly yearlong period from 2018 to 2019; they were held in either Border Patrol or Health and Human Services custody.
39% : He said the Border Patrol told him to call 911 when volunteers encountered an 8-month-old child between the walls was "listless and vomiting."
37% : McALLEN, Texas -- A little girl from Panama born with heart problems died in Border Patrol custody Wednesday, the second death of a child from Latin America in U.S. government custody in two weeks.
35% : During the Trump administration, the deaths of children in U.S. custody became flashpoints of controversy, calling into question the administration's efforts to protect the most vulnerable migrants at a time when the U.S. was seeing a rise in the number of families with children coming to the southern border.

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