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Shocking Video Shows How Border Patrol Let Teenage Asylum Seeker Die in Custody

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Shocking Video Shows How Border Patrol Let Teenage Asylum Seeker Die in Custody
A shocking video obtained by ProPublica shows the last hours of the life of 16-year-old indigenous Guatemalan asylum seeker Carlos Gregorio Hernández Vásquez. He was found dead by his cellmate in a Texas Border Patrol holding cell in May. A warning to our video viewers: this footage is disturbing. Hernández Vázquez had been diagnosed with the flu and a fever of 103 when he was put in the holding cell with another sick boy. A nurse recommended he be sent to the emergency room if his conditions worsened. Instead, Border Patrol left him in a cold, cement, quarantined cell, where...
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