Several migrant children died of the flu while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody over the past year. Now, doctors are pressuring the agency to allow them to give detained migrant children flu shots. The agency has yet to respond.
Doctors are pressuring U.S. Customs and Border Protection to allow them to vaccinate detained migrant children against the flu after several died of the disease in federal custody during the past year.
Border Patrol officials say they do not vaccinate migrant families and children because their holding areas are supposed to be temporary. Border Patrol may release migrants, transfer them to HHS or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which runs the country’s long-term adult and family immigrant detention centers. Both HHS and ICE “have comprehensive medical support services and can provide vaccinations as appropriate to those in their custody,” the Border Patrol spokeswoman said.
“It’s putting people in a dangerous situation and increasing their risks of getting any disease, including the flu,” she said, and although migrants can get vaccinated later on, “the vaccination’s not going to help them once they’ve already gotten sick.” But young migrants continued to die in federal custody. After 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant Carlos Hernandez died of the flu May 21, Border Patrol had to temporarily close the south Texas detention center where he had been held and quarantine three dozen other sick migrants. In August, doctors at Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities urged Congress to investigate migrant children’s deaths in Border Patrol detention, warning conditions there contributed to a higher incidence of deadly flu.
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