The 16-year-old was found unresponsive in Border Patrol custody on Monday morning.
Breaking point: Five hours of the migrant crush in Texas View Graphic Breaking point: Five hours of the migrant crush in Texas A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border died Monday morning in the custody of U.S. agents in Weslaco, Tex., U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement.
[‘The Conveyor Belt’: U.S. officials say massive smuggling effort is speeding immigrants to the border] Immigration authorities have struggled to manage a record flow of migrant families and unaccompanied children crossing the southwest border this year. As of April, they had apprehended nearly 45,000 unaccompanied children in six months — a 75 percent increase from the same period last fiscal year. Four out of 10 are picked up in the Rio Grande Valley.
“The entire system is overwhelmed,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity during a conference call with reporters.
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