Migrant deaths in Arizona, Texas reported months later by CBP were not in custody
Download mp3 (1.23 MB)U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the deaths of two migrants this week more than two months after agents found them having medical emergencies.
When a migrant shows signs of having a medical emergency and dies in the field, en route to the hospital or after getting initial treatment there, CBP does not consider their death to have been in-custody.
In August, CBP says agents quickly treated a just-apprehended woman who looked dehydrated. A city ambulance took her to an El Paso hospital and she died within 24 hours.
Two days later, and about 200 miles west, agents on horseback reported that they found a man unconscious but alive.
They carried him to a highway on a board because air evacuations were not available. The man rode a city ambulance to a Douglas hospital and was declared dead within an hour.
The chief medical examiner for Pima County has identified him as 20-year-old Roman Francisco Gasga Guillen of Mexico.
