Jakelin's father Nery Caal decided to migrate with his favorite child to earn money he could send back home. The girl leapt with joy when she was told about the trip, Domingo Caal said in Spanish. Tekandi Paniagua, the Guatemalan consul in Del Rio, Texas, told The Associated Press that Nery Caal and his daughter took about a week to reach the U.S. border. The consul said Caal told him the girl never lacked food or water either before or after they were detained, and said he had no complaints about how they were treated. The girl died at about 12:30 a.m. Dec. 8, roughly 19 hours after she began throwing up on the bus and 27 hours after being apprehended.

Source: ABC News December 15, 2018 22:58 UTC