(The Hill)
House Democratic leaders on Wednesday vowed to investigate the deaths of two migrant children in U.S. custody.
"The death of two children in U.S. custody is unconscionable," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials on Tuesday announced that an 8-year old Guatemalan boy had died in the agency’s custody. The boy, Felipe Gómez Alonzo, died after being hospitalized in New Mexico with flu-like symptoms, high fever and vomiting.
He had been detained with his father after crossing into the country illegally.
“It is incumbent upon Congress to ask serious questions about what happened and who bears responsibility,” House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said in a statement. Read more