Border Patrol Negligence Led to Death of 8-Year-Old Migrant Girl

An eight-year-old girl with underlying medical conditions who died in US Border Patrol custody was repeatedly denied requests to go to hospital. Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez was seen by medical staff nine times in three days- with "fever, flu-like symptoms, and pain", investigators said. She was seen by a nurse four times on the day she died. However, the nurse denied "three or four requests from the girl's mother for an ambulance to be called". The family said they reported her medical history when they had first been taken into custody at a different facility a week earlier.