CBP confirms that a 6-month-old baby girl was taken by helicopter to a hospital after crossing the Rio Grande into the US on Thursday with her father.
The US Customs and Border Protection agency provided a statement to Insider on another potential death in custody of a migrant child after a 6-month-old baby girl was transported by helicopter to a children's hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. She is currently in critical condition.
A spokesperson for CBP told Insider in the statement that US Border Patrol agents encountered the child with her father along with a group of 21 people at 1:30 AM on Thursday, when they were apprehended after crossing the Rio Grande into the US three miles west of the port of entry in Roma, Texas. Border Patrol agents transported the baby girl and her father to a central processing center in McAllen, Texas, and at 9:20 AM, medical staff assessed that the girl needed hospital care for reasons that were unspecified. At 9:40 AM on Thursday, the baby and her father were transported by CBP officers to a regional children's hospital in Edinburg.Border Patrol has never vaccinated the migrant children it apprehends. Doctors say it's time for that to change.
Then, medical authorities transferred the 6-month-old girl to Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi by a medivac helicopter. "Since there was no more space in the helicopter, CBP officers drove the child's father to the hospital to be with his daughter where she continues to receive medical care," the statement to Insider reads."Our thoughts and prayers are with the young girl and her father during this difficult time."in federal custody, with a sixth child dying in May after being released and spending weeks in an El Paso, Texas children's hospital.
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