The US Customs and Border Protection has released a timeline offering a detailed look on the final week in the life of eight-year-old Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, who died in US custody on Christmas Eve.
In the wake of the Guatemalan boy's passing, which marked the second death of an immigrant child in the agency's care this month, the CBP on Tuesday ordered medical checks on every child in its custody, with a special focus on juveniles under the age of 10.
The death came during an ongoing dispute over border security and with a partial government shutdown underway over President Donald Trump's demand for border wall funding .
According to a statement released by the CBP's Office of Public Affairs on Tuesday, the migrant boy, who was identified by Congressman Joaquin Castro as Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, died shortly before midnight on Monday at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
‘This is a tragic loss,' CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said of the child’s passing in a prepared statement. 'On behalf of US Customs and Border Protection, our deepest sympathies go out to the family.'
Hospital: Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, an eight-year-old migrant from Guatemala, died at the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in New Mexico on Christmas Eve, ever The agency reports that he was given prescriptions for amoxicillin and ibuprofen before being released from the facility on Monday afternoon (Gerald Champion medical center, where the boy received treatment, above)
The agency’s timeline reveals that at around 1pm local time on December 18, Felipe and his father, 47-year-old Agustin Gomez, were caught entering the US illegally 3 miles west of the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas.
The father and son were kept in a field until transport arrived to take them to the port of entry's processing center at 4.39pm.
While at the Paso Del Norte Port, Felipe and his father were give hot food, snacks, juice and water, and agents at the facility performed six welfare checks on the family.
At around noon on December 20, Felipe and his dad were transferred to El Paso Border Patrol Station, where they remained until December 22.
During that time, the migrants were provided with showers, food and beverages, and the agents logged 17 welfare checks.
Shortly after 11pm on December 22, Felipe and his father were relocated to the Alamogordo Border Patrol Station due to overcrowding at the El Paso station. Alamogordo is about 90 miles from El Paso.
The pair arrived at the new location just after 1am on December 23 and were give meals and personal hygiene products. The agents also performed several welfare checks on them.
At around 9am on December 24, a processing agent noticed that Felipe was coughing and appeared to have 'glossy eyes.'
Thirty minutes later, based on the agent's observations, the father and son were taken to the local hospital with possible flu symptoms.
Once at the hospital, Felipe was tested for strep throat. By 12.45pm, he was diagnosed with the common cold and given Tylenol.
Tragedy: Jakelin Caal (above in file photo), a seven-year-old girl from Guatemala, lost her life as well earlier this month while in custody
When medical staff measured the boy’s temperature 35 minutes later, they found him to have a 103-degree fever.
Shortly before 3pm that day, Felipe was released from the emergency room with a prescription for amoxicillin and Ibuprofen, after which he and his father were taken to a temporary holding facility at the Highway 70 checkpoint, where they were offered a hot meal.
At 5pm, Border Patrol agents administered to the eight-year-old boy a dose of the prescribed medication and checked up on him several times that evening.
Two hours later, Felipe vomited and agents helped clean him up.
'His father declined further medical assistance as the child had bene feeling better,' the timeline states.
At 10pm, Felipe appeared lethargic and nauseous again. Since there were no paramedics on duty at the time, agents made a decision to send the boy and his dad back to the hospital as a precaution.
As they were being transported to the medical center, Felipe began to vomit and passed out.
They arrived at the hospital at 11.07pm and were met by medical staff, who went to work trying to revive Felipe, but to no avail.
Despite their efforts, the eight-year-old was pronounced dead at 11.48pm on Christmas Eve.
The Guatemalan Consulate was notified of the boy's death the next morning.
Oscar Padilla, the Guatemalan consul in Phoenix, said he was told by the boy's father in a telephone interview that the two had been traveling from their home in Nentón, a village about 280 miles from Guatemala City, where Felipe's mother still lives. They were planning to go to Johnson City, Tennessee.
Felipe's father is currently being detained at the Alamogordo Station pending transfer to the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations.
CBP did not fully explain in its statement why Felipe and his father were detained for a week, which is an unusually long time.
CBP typically detains immigrants for no more than a few days when they cross the border before either releasing them or turning them over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for longer-term detention.
Agency guidelines say immigrants generally shouldn't be detained for more than 72 hours in CBP holding facilities, which are usually smaller and have fewer services than ICE detention centers.
Funeral: She was laid to rest on Christmas Eve in Guatemala, two weeks after she suffered cardiac arrest, brain swelling and liver failure that led to her death
CBP said in the statement that it needs the help of other government agencies to provide health care. The agency 'is considering options for surge medical assistance" from the Coast Guard and may request help from the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
A CBP spokesman could not immediately answer how many children are currently in the agency's custody. But with border crossings surging, CBP processes thousands of children - both alone and with their parents - every month.
Immigration advocates and human rights groups sharply criticized CBP in the wake of Felipe's death. The body of seven-year-old Jakelin Caal, who died earlier this month, was returned this past week to her village in Guatemala for burial.
An indigenous Mayan who had been hoping to begin a new life in the United States with her father, Jakelin came down with a fever while being detained by authorities, and on December 8 died in an El Paso hospital.
She and her father handed themselves in to border agents in New Mexico on December 6 and two days later she fell ill.
Jakelin died after suffering cardiac arrest, brain swelling and liver failure.
CBP Commissioner McAleenan said Wednesday that the agency has more than 1,500 emergency medical technicians on staff and that officers are taking dozens of sick children to hospitals every day.
'This is an extraordinarily rare occurrence,' McAleenan told CBS This Morning of the recent child deaths. 'It's been more than a decade since we've had a child pass away anywhere in a CBP process, so this is just devastating for us.'
Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said the Trump administration's 'policies of cruelty toward migrants and asylum-seekers at the border must cease immediately before any more children are harmed.'
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Main photo article The US Customs and Border Protection has released a timeline offering a detailed look on the final week in the life of eight-year-old Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, who died in US custody on Christmas Eve.
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