8-Year-Old Migrant Boy Dies In Government Custody In New Mexico Hospital

This photo shows the border fence under construction near New Mexico’s Highway 9, near Santa Teresa.

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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.