December 22, 2018

ANTELOPE WELLS BORDER STATION, N.M — The U.S.-Mexico border here is an imaginary line in a wilderness of mountains, wind and sand. It’s 45 miles to the nearest town, Hachita, N.M., population 49. 

This is where 7-year-old Jakelin Caal and her father, Nery, arrived on the night of Dec. 6 with 161 others who walked around U.S. border gates and surrendered to agents. Twenty-seven hours later, the child was dead.

Questions about how and why Caal died have fixed on the care she received in U.S. Border Patrol custody, and whether U.S. agents, or her father, deserve blame. The Department of Homeland Security has opened an internal investigation. Democratic lawmakers are threatening an inquiry of their own.

Read more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hundreds-of-immigrant-families-arrive-at-remote-border-crossings-overwhelming-us-agents/2018/12/22/44f869f2-055d-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.db9efe142dc4