A 7 Year Old Little Girl Died of Dehydration and Exhaustion After Crossing Border, Doctors Without Borders is Helping, See Information Below

Here is the info: doctorswithoutborders.org/support. Here are 2 phone numbers: 212-763-5779 or 888-392-0392. I talked at length to the 212. Number. We can earmark our donations to The Reynosa, Mexico mission. Thank you for considering this.

Bridget Mary Meehan

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/7-year-old-migrant-girl-taken-into-border-patrol-custody-dies-of-dehydration-exhaustion/2018/12/13/8909e356-ff03-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.148ba89ad0ee

By Nick Miroff and

Robert Moore

December 13 at 9:55 PM

A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.

The child’s death is likely to intensify scrutiny of detention conditions at Border Patrol stations and CBP facilities that are increasingly overwhelmed by large numbers of families seeking asylum in the United States.

According to CBP records, the girl and her father were taken into custody about 10 p.m. Dec. 6 south of Lordsburg, N.M., as part of a group of 163 people who approached U.S. agents to turn themselves in.

More than eight hours later, the child began having seizures at 6:25 a.m., CBP records show. Emergency responders, who arrived soon after, measured her body temperature at 105.7 degrees, and according to a statement from CBP, she “reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.”