DHS Calls CDC To Investigate Growing Number Of Sick Migrants | The Daily Caller

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is requesting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigate the cause of the growing number of sick migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, officials revealed to reporters Wednesday morning.

TIJUANA, MEXICO - DECEMBER 15: Honduran migrants, part of a caravan of thousands attempting to reach the U.S., peer across the U.S.-Mexico border fence on December 15, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico. Many in the caravan had planned to request political asylum in the United States after traveling more than 6 weeks from Central America. U.S. border officials only process a limited numbers of asylum cases per day, leaving many migrants to choose between crossing illegally or possibly waiting for months in shelters in Mexico for U.S. asylum hearings. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Honduran migrants, part of a caravan of thousands attempting to reach the U.S., peer across the U.S.-Mexico border fence on December 15, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

A DHS official told reporters that “literally dozens” of sick migrants are being transported to hospitals across the border each day and that growing numbers of children showing illness are present in border patrol custody.

“We’re doing dozens of hospital trips every single day with children that have fevers or manifest other medical conditions,” CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told CBSNews Wednesday morning.

An official also told reporters that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is requesting that Mexican authorities also investigate the living conditions of migrant holding camps across the border to see if that is the source of illness.

TOPSHOT - Honduran migrants taking part in a new caravan heading to the US, arrive to Chiquimula, Guatemala, on October 22, 2018. - US President Donald Trump on Monday called the migrant caravan heading toward the US-Mexico border a national emergency, saying he has alerted the US border patrol and military. (ORLANDO ESTRADA/AFP/Getty Images)https://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Migrant_Caravan-180x120.jpg 180w, https://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Migrant_Caravan-768x513.jpg 768w, https://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Migrant_Caravan-620x414.jpg 620w" sizes="(max-width: 5112px) 100vw, 5112px">

Honduran migrants taking part in a new caravan heading to the US, arrive to Chiquimula, Guatemala, on October 22, 2018. (Photo by ORLANDO ESTRADA / AFP)

DHS officials revealed their concern during a phone call to discuss the plight of an 8-year-old Guatemalan child who died in border patrol custody Monday. The child’s death came just days after DHS also announced the death of a 7-year-old girl who died in mid-December. (RELATED: Fact Check: Was A 7-Year-Old Girl In Border Patrol Custody For A Week Before Dying Of Dehydration?)

The children’s deaths have brought intense scrutiny on the holding conditions and procedures of DHS, which says they are simply overburdened by thousands of daily illegal border crossings. A DHS official noted that, prior to these two incidents, border patrol had not lost a child in custody in over a decade. This was remarkable, they claimed, given the hundreds of thousands who have passed through its holding facilities in the interim period.

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Comment by Nazda Pokmov on December 27, 2018 at 7:36pm

I wonder what the REAL cause of the deaths were....maybe they will publish the autopsy findings on this..... probably induced by some coyote who brought them to the border......

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