A 16-year-old migrant from Mexico asked a United States Border Patrol agent for help for her sick daughter while both “were in the custody of said agency in Arizona on September 23.”
The official “didn’t understand” and therefore didn’t handle the case with the required urgency. Unfortunately the baby died.
The teen later told authorities that while walking to Arizona “from Sonora, Mexico,” she noticed her daughter “began to have difficulty breathing and pain.”
On October 1, 2023, a possible reason for the officer’s response emerged: “the language barrier,” Univisión noted.
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The mother spoke Spanish
A CBP statement said that “the Border Patrol agent who located the minor and her baby did not understand when she told him in Spanish and from the back of the vehicle that her daughter was having difficulty breathing and feared for her life.”
They described the minor “holding her baby, who was covered with a blanket. Inside the vehicle, separated by grilles, the teen began speaking to him in Spanish.”
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CBP has recorded the sequence of what happened: from the moment the mother and the minor were discovered by the Border Patrol – at 2:34 a.m. – until the young woman was informed of the child’s death, to 4:00 in the morning. morning.
When Border Patrol agents took her to headquarters, the teen told the officer “that her daughter was in danger and she needed to go to the hospital.”
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Already at the command headquarters, the teenager told a bilingual officer “that her daughter was almost dead.” An hour later, Univisión reported that they had informed him that he had died.
The report, accessed by the US News Network, indicates that “nine minutes passed from the time the young woman asked the officer for help until the little girl was treated by doctors at the Nogales Border Patrol station.”
They added that “the officer stated that he did not understand what the mother was trying to convey.” (…) He later explained to his colleagues that “I didn’t know the baby was in danger.”
However, according to Univisión, they do not explain “why” in the official statement. The officer did not radio to request that bilingual staff translate for him what the young mother told him.”
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The baby’s last minutes
In the order of what happened, according to the CBP, the following details are highlighted by Univisión:
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As Univision News learned, the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy on the baby last Monday, September 25. The cause of death has not been reported.
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Source: Eluniverso
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