Food and water are typically provided to migrants in Border Patrol custody, and it wasn’t immediately clear Thursday if the girl received provisions and a medical exam before the onset of seizures. “Border Patrol agents took every possible step to save the child’s life under the most trying of circumstances,” Meehan said. Migrants traveling as part of a family group accounted for 58 percent of those taken into custody last month by the Border Patrol. “Our Border Patrol stations were built decades ago to handle mostly male single adults in custody, not families and children,” McAleenan told lawmakers. Moore reported from El Paso.

Source: Washington Post December 14, 2018 00:45 UTC