8-year-old migrant girl dies in US custody at the Tamaulipas-Texas border - Tamaulipas Post
Posted on AllSides May 18th, 2023
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HARLINGEN, TEXAS.- An eight-year-old migrant girl died in US custody in Texas on Wednesday, mAY 17th, a tragedy that tempered news of a sharp drop in attempted illegal crossings of the southern US border. The girl died in Harlingen, a Texas border city near the Gulf of Mexico, just a few miles from the border with Tamaulipas, Mexico. “The child and her family were in custody at the Harlingen Station where she experienced a medical emergency,” US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement. “Emergency Medical Services were...