Wilmer Josué Ramírez Vásquez is one of five children to die after being detained by border agents since late last year. The Border Patrol said after Wilmer’s death that it had detained Wilmer and his mother for three days when she told agents her son was ill. The Border Patrol made 132,887 apprehensions in May, including 84,542 adults and children travelling together. — Of 2,669 children detained by the Border Patrol in the region, 826, or 31%, had been held there longer than 72 hours. The report also detailed “security incidents” at multiple facilities, including one case in which detained migrants refused to re-enter their cell after it had been cleaned.

Source: thestar July 02, 2019 19:09 UTC