The release on Wednesday followed days of other mass releases by the agency in order to prevent migrant families from being detained longer than allowed. On Christmas Day, the agency released 186 migrants and another 400 were set free two days prior, Las Cruces' KVIA-TV reported. More releases are expected Thursday, said Ruben Garcia of the Annunciation House, a homeless and refugee shelter in El Paso. But U.S. Rep.-elect Veronica Escobar, D-Tex., told the Associated Press that ICE officials dropped people off at the bus station after Annunciation House said it didn't have enough space. The boy, identified by Guatemalan officials as Felipe Gomez Alonzo, died in U.S. custody at a New Mexico hospital on Christmas Eve after suffering a cough, vomiting and fever, authorities said.

Source: Fox News December 27, 2018 10:31 UTC