8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies in US custody after treatment for cold
by Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Dec 26, 2018
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy died early Tuesday in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities, the second death in less than three weeks of a child in detention and a searing new emblem of Trump administration border policies that critics are lambasting as cruel and inhumane.
The boy's death at a New Mexico hospital was yet another grim inflection point in the wider immigration struggle that has roiled U.S. politics this year, stirring partisan passions and fueling outrage over the ongoing
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