Amy Goodman
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Justice for Jakelin: Lawmakers Demand Answers in Death of 7-Year-Old Girl in Border Patrol Custody
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December 19, 2018
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8:58Now PlayingOutrage is mounting over the death of a 7yearold indigenous Guatemalan girl in Border Patrol custody, as lawmakers demand answers for the conditions that led Jakelin Caal Maquín to die after being detained at the U.S.Mexico border. Maquin died on December 8, two days after she and her father presented themselves at the border alongside 161 other Central American asylum seekers. She had been held in detention for more than eight hours when she began to have seizures. Border Patrol agents brought the girl to the hospital after her body temperature spiked to 105.7 degrees. The 7yearold died of dehydration, shock and liver failure at an El Paso hospital less than 24 hours later. We speak with Clara Long, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, and Greg Grandin, prizewinning author and professor of Latin American history at New York University. His latest piece in The Nation, coauthored with Elizabeth Oglesby, is titled “Who Killed Jakelin Caal Maquín at the US Border?”
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