AdvertisementDozens of Central Americans are still preparing to scale the border fence from Mexico into the United States, three weeks after the border patrol and US military shut down the crossing between Tijuana in Mexico and San Ysidro in California. Children are separated from their families and, along with unaccompanied children who enter the country illegally, are sent off to a web of special camps. They held there until a family member or sponsor already residing in the United States agrees to take care of them. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the December 8 death of the girl, saying she died in an El Paso, Texas hospital less than 24 hours after being detained as part of a group of 163 illegal border crossers in a remote New Mexico border area. 'We need a thorough account of what happened before this 7-year-old girl died of dehydration and exhaustion in CBP custody,' she tweeted.

Source: Daily Mail December 15, 2018 12:44 UTC