House lawmakers on Wednesday heard emotional testimony from a Guatemalan woman seeking asylum in the United States whose two-year-old daughter contracted a lung infection while at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas and died shortly after their release. “We came to the U.S. in the hope of finding a better life for us,” Juárez said through a translator. Democrats have slammed the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration and blamed White House policies for exacerbating the border crisis. Democratic outrage has been fueled by lawmakers who reported overcrowded, unsanitary conditions at south Texas detention facilities they visited last week, observations that a report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general seemed to confirm. Revelations that five children have died in Border Patrol custody since December.

Source: Fox News July 10, 2019 21:33 UTC