Border Patrol Refused Ambulance and Failed to Review Documents Before 8-Year-Old's Death

An internal investigation by Customs and Border Protection found that an 8-year-old girl who died in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol last month suffered a 104.9-degree fever, but was still not taken to a hospital, the day before she died. The nurse practitioner also declined to review documents and refused repeated requests for an ambulance from the mother of Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez in the hours before the child appeared to suffer a seizure and died on her ninth day in the agency’s custody. The internal review has so far focused on the "events and interactions” that unfolded between the time Anadith and her family arrived at the Harlingen U.S. Border Patrol Station on May 14 for medical isolation to the day she was transported to the hospital and later died.