Seven-year-old Guatemalan girl Jakelin Caal who died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in the custody of US Customs and Border Patrol most likely suffered from septic shock, the Department of Homeland Security has said.
Jakelin Caal died on December 8 in a hospital in El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of the morning.
Septic shock is a widespread infection that can lead to extremely low blood pressure and multiple organ failure.
Initially it was believed that she died from dehydration.
An official autopsy on the girl was expected to be released sometime Monday, according to NBC News.
DHS released a more detailed timeline of the events which preceded her death.
She was detained along with her father Nery at 9.15pm on December 6th as they crossed into the US in New Mexico illegally.
At 10pm that night, Nery was questioned about their health and, according to Customs and Border Patrol, told agents that neither he nor his daughter had health problems.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say he did not understand when he was asked in Spanish if his daughter was in good health and answered yes because his native tongue is Mayan.
Nery was questioned in Spanish and his answers were translated to English and marked onto a Form I-779.
On Friday, officials repeatedly eschewed blame for Jakelin's death by telling journalists about the form.
But in light of the fact that Spanish was not, as they claimed, his first language, it remains unclear if Nery knew what he was saying when he told the agents that his daughter was healthy.
It also remains unclear what he would have told them had he understood the questions fully.
'Jakelin and her father speak Q'eqchi' and Spanish is their second language. Neither of them speaks English. Yet, CBP is relying on forms signed by her father which are in the English language.
'It is unacceptable for any government agency to have persons in custody sign documents in a language that they clearly do not understand,' lawyers Enrique Moreno, Elena Esparza and Lynn Coyle said in a joint statement.
He also fought the government's initial claim that Jakelin had not eaten or drank water for 'days' before she died.
'Prior to going into CBP custody and contrary to the report that Jakelin 'had not eaten or had any water for several days,' Jakelin had not been crossing the desert for days.
'Jakelin's father took care of Jakelin - made sure she was fed and had sufficient water. She and her father sought asylum from border patrol as soon as they crossed the border.
'She had not suffered from a lack of water or food prior to approaching the border,' the lawyers said.
The child's cause of death has not yet been determined and no information about her autopsy has been released.
Speaking through tears in a Mayan dialect, Jakelin's mother Claudia Maquin said: 'Every time they ask me what happened to the girl, it hurts me again'. She is shown with her two sons and baby daughter
Domingo Caal Chub, 61, (pictured), Nery's father, and the rest of the family are said to speak a Mayan dialect with both English and Spanish being their second languages
This is the home Jakelin lived in with her father, mother, grandfather and three siblings where they survived on $5-a-day
Last week, CBP officials spoke on a conference call along with officials from the Department of Homeland Security where they gave reasons including brain swelling, liver failure, septic shock and dehydration for her death.
The officials repeatedly refused to go on the record with their claims.
Nery is now staying at Anunciation House, a shelter for migrants in El Paso. His daughter's body is being sent back to Guatemala for burial in the village she fled.
Tekandi Paniagua, the Guatemalan consul in Del Rio, Texas, told The Associates Press that he had spoken with the girl's father who said he had no complaints about how they were treated.
'When I spoke to the father he actually said he was very grateful for the effort of both the Border Patrol agents that assisted his daughter at the station as well as the medical staff at the hospital,' he said on Saturday.
He said he told him that in his impoverished village in Guatemala, Spanish is needed only occasionally, such as when the community deals with schools and health care or for work, Paniagua said.
Before they arrived at the border crossing, he said they had only been walking for 90 minutes with the group of 162 others.
Caal asked the Guatemalan consulate in Texas, which had reached out to him, if he could see his daughter one last time before her body was sent back to her homeland.
That request prompted special arrangements at a private funeral home on Friday, when he said goodbye to Jakelin.
The consulate asked him if he wanted an interpreter who could explain everything, including the repatriation of her body, in Q'eqchi.′
He said he did. After listening to the interpreter, Paniagua said, Caal thanked the consulate and said 'he felt more comfortable in his own language.'
Jakelin was her father's favorite child, according to her mother and grandfather.
Jakelin's official cause of death has not yet been released
The family lives in a hut in San Antonio Secortez, a mountainous hamlet which has only 420 inhabitants, and they survive on $5-a-day which they earn through harvesting corn and beans.
According to the family, Nery paid a smuggler to take him and Jakelin to the border. His father Domingo, who speaks Spanish like 'most' other men in the town, told The Associated Press that he borrowed money to pay for their journey and used their plot of land as a surety.
'He was desperate,' he said.
The family contradicted what his lawyers seemed to suggest by saying that they never intended to apply for asylum.
Most of the men in the village know Spanish but Nery's was 'broken', according to Guatemalan officials.
Jakelin's mother Claudia held back tears as she described her life in Mayan. Her grandfather, Domingo Caal Chub, 61, translated her remarks into Spanish.
'Everytime they ask me what happened to the girl, it hurts me again,' she said.
More than two dozen languages are spoken in Guatemala, and the consulate tries to send interpreters as soon as possible to help detained migrants, Paniagua said.
Jakelin's father is now staying at a shelter in El Paso, Texas, and has asked for privacy. Pictured is Ruben Garcia, the head of the shelter, at a news conference on Saturday
A sign outside the family's home announces Jakelin's death
Jackeline Caal Maquin died on December 8th a day after being detained on the border with her father. Her death has sparked humanitarian concerns about the US's treatment of illegal migrants in their custody. Above is an illustration of her final hours
Jakelin was the only child her father took with him from the family when they left their home in Raxruha for the US several weeks ago
But sometimes by the time they get there, the migrants have already signed forms.
'We'll ask, 'Do you speak Spanish?' And they'll say yes,' he said. 'Then we'll ask, 'But do you understand Spanish?' And often they'll say, 'No, I need an interpreter.'
All ICE agents are required to speak Spanish, and they receive formal Spanish training. Reading forms in Spanish is often enough to pose basic questions.
Scores of immigrant parents who were separated from their children after crossing the border in the spring said they signed forms agreeing to be deported with the understanding that their kids would be returning with them, only to find themselves deported without them. Many had to wait months before being reunited with them in their homelands.
Border Patrol officials on Friday said agents did everything they could to save the girl but that she had not had food or water for days.
Jakelin's family is asking for an 'objective and thorough' investigation to determine whether officials met standards for taking children into custody.
Border Patrol officials did not immediately respond to the family lawyers' statement.
Authorities are conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Results are expected in about a week.
An investigation into her death is also being carried out by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General.
BORDER PATROL CHIEF KNEW ABOUT MIGRANT GIRL'S DEATH WHEN HE TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESS BUT DIDN'T WANT TO 'POLITICIZE IT'
Kevin McAleenan on December 11, three days after Jakelin's death, as he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Kevin McAleenan, the Commissioner for Customs and Border Patrol, has come under fire for not disclosing Jakelin's death when he testified before Congress on December 11.
After it became public knowledge on Friday, a week after it Jakelin died, he wrote a letter to say the reason for the omission was that he did not want to 'politicize it'.
He said the agency was also in the process of 'solidifying a privacy waiver' and that he 'did not have confirmation that the mother had been notified in Guatemala.'
'Most importantly, I did not want to risk politicizing the death of a child while I was imploring Senators to fix the laws that are inviting families to take this dangerous path,' he wrote.
On Friday, he called her death 'tragic' and said in a statement: 'Border Patrol Agents, including trained Emergency Medical Technicians did everything in their power to provide emergency medical assistance for Jakelin Caal Maquin immediately after her father notified the agents of her distress at a remote Forward Operating Base, 94 miles from the nearest Border Patrol Station.
'Border Patrol Agents revived Jakelin twice before emergency responders arrived via air ambulance to continue medical care. Emergency Medical professionals transported her by helicopter to the nearest children’s hospital.”
'Despite our trained EMT agents’ best efforts fighting for Jakelin’s life, and the work of the Hidalgo County and Providence Children’s Hospital medical teams treating her, we were unable to rescue her.
'The agents involved are deeply affected and empathize with the father over the loss of his daughter.'
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Seven-year-old Guatemalan girl Jakelin Caal who died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in the custody of US Customs and Border Patrol most likely suffered from septic shock, the Department of Homeland Security has said.
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