A little girl from Panama born with heart problems has died in Border Patrol custody, according to a United States government statement on Thursday, marking the second death in two weeks of a child in custody from Latin America.The 8-year-old girl and her family were being held in Harlingen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the busiest corridors for border crossings.The Border Patrol’s parent agency, US Customs and Border Protection, has struggled with overcrowding at its facilities, spurred by a large increase in migrants and asylum seekers ahead of the expiration last week of a key regulation on immigration linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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