New Mexico Delegation Demands Oversight Hearing on Death of Seven-Year old Child in CBP Custody
12/19/18
AILA Doc. No. 18122034.
Admissions & Border, Asylum, Congress, Detention & Bond, Removal & Relief
On 12/19/18, New Mexico Senators Tom Udall (D) and Martin Heinrich (D), and Representatives Ben Ray Lujan (D) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) urged Congress to hold oversight hearings on the death of seven-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin after she and her father were held by CBP in New Mexico.
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 18122034.
Related Resources
- CBP Releases Interim Procedures on Notification of a Death in Custody
- El Paso Times: What killed Jakelin Caal Maquin? Questions target Guatemala migrant girl's death - December 19, 2018
- The Washington Post: Border officials issue new prompt notification policy after migrant child's death went undisclosed - December 19, 2018
- The Washington Post: 7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion - December 13, 2018