He was prescribed the medicine Tamiflu and moved to the Weslaco facility to avoid other detainees getting sick. The boy is the fifth child to have died in recent months after making the long journey from Guatemala to the US and being detained by border agents. The Border Patrol agency has come under intense scrutiny in recent months over its treatment of children apprehended at the border. Last week a two-year-old boy from Guatemala died at a hospital in Texas after he and his mother were detained by border patrol. In April, a 16-year-old boy from Guatemala died after staff at an HHS facility noticed he was sick and transferred him to a hospital.

Source: Bangkok Post May 21, 2019 02:03 UTC