Updated at 9:15 a.m. ET Wednesday
An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in government custody, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says.
The boy died just before midnight on Monday, at a hospital in Alamogordo, N.M. He is the second child this month to die in CBP custody after being apprehended by the agency.
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