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Migrants along a road near the Rio Grande after crossing the Texas-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, May 11, 2023. /CFP
An 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody last week was seen at least three times by medical personnel on the day of her death, complaining of vomiting, a stomachache, and later suffering what appeared to be a seizure, according to U.S. immigration officials on Sunday.
The girl's mother complained that agents had repeatedly ignored her pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter, who had a history of heart problems and sickle cell anemia, according to a report by The Associated Press.
Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, whose parents are Honduran, was born in Panama with congenital heart disease.
"She cried and begged for her life, and they ignored her. They didn't do anything for her," Mabel Alvarez Benedicks, the mother of Anadith, said during an interview Friday.
In a statement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it knew about the girl's medical history when personnel began treating her for influenza four days before her death on May 17.
Anadith's death raised concerns about how the Border Patrol handled the situation, as it was the second child migrant death in U.S. government custody in two weeks.
Her death came a week after a 17-year-old Honduran boy, Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza, died in U.S. Health and Human Services Department custody. He was traveling alone.
(With input from AP)
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