WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 08th January, 2019) The Trump administration has a long way to go to ensure migrants are treated humanely while in custody of United States immigration authorities, US Congressman Joaquin Castro said in a press conference after visiting a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility in New Mexico.
"Today's visit reaffirm the fact that the Federal government under the Trump administration still has a long way to go in making sure that migrants are treated humanely, that there is proper medical care, personnel, equipment, staff, supplies, all of it, to treat migrants who encounter medical emergencies," Castro told reporters on Monday.
Castro and other lawmakers visited the CBP station in the city of Alamogordo to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of eight-year-old Guatemalan migrant Felipe Gomez who died while in the agency's custody.
Congresswoman Nanette Barragan said the lawmakers were unable to get answers in the Gomez case.
On December 28, an autopsy revealed that Gomez tested positive for Influenza B, according to the Health Sciences Center of the University of New Mexico. But an official cause of the boy's death has not been determined yet.
Gomez was the second child to die in CBP custody in December after a seven year-old Guatemalan girl died after being apprehended together with her father for illegally entering the United States.
