White House Calls 7-Year-Old Migrant Child’s Death ‘Tragedy’ but ‘Preventable’

Border Patrol guards the fence at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., on May 23, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

The White House said on Dec. 14 that the death of a 7-year-old migrant was a tragedy but said it was “100 percent preventable.”

The young girl was apprehended as part of a large group of people who crossed into the United States on Dec. 6. The girl began having seizures while in Border Patrol custody. She was airlifted to a hospital in El Paso and suffered a heart attack.