A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl named Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin died last week in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Trump administration has chosen to blame the victim ...

Claudia Maquin, 27, whose daughter Jakelin Caal died in a Texas hospital two days after being taken into custody by Border Patrol agents. Getty Images The mother of a 7-year-old girl who died while in ...

In this op-ed, Aditi Juneja, communications organizer for Protect Democracy, writes about why the deaths of two Guatemalan children in Border Patrol custody hit so close to home — and why the new ...

Jakelin Caal Maquin died less than 48 hours after Border Patrol agents detained her and other migrants at a remote New Mexico border crossing. The 7-year-old girl had traveled with her father more ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said he did not disclose the death of a 7-year-old girl at the border during his testimony to Congress because he wasn't sure that ...

The death of a child is always tragic. In the case of Jakelin Caal Maquin, the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who recently died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, it was likely also ...

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Nearly four months after Jakelin Caal Maquin’s death captured national attention and raised questions about the treatment of migrant families in federal custody, an autopsy report found that the ...

Ever since the U.S. Border Patrol admitted that Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin, a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl seeking asylum with her father, had died in their custody, government officials have been ...