A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy died Monday in U.S. Border Patrol custody, the agency said. The boy is the fifth child to die after crossing the border illegally in the past six months; four of them have died in U.S. government custody. Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez was found unresponsive during a welfare check Monday morning at a Border Patrol station in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. A CBP official said the boy had been given a welfare check an hour before being...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 20, 2019 19:30 UTC