{"id":389288,"date":"2018-12-15T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-immigrant-childs-death-rekindles-criticism-of-trump\/"},"modified":"2018-12-15T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T18:20:07","slug":"presstv-immigrant-childs-death-rekindles-criticism-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-immigrant-childs-death-rekindles-criticism-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Immigrant child&#8217;s death rekindles criticism of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The death of an immigrant child, who died in custody in the United States, has reignited\u00a0criticism of US President Donald Trump&#8217;s anti-immigration policies.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seven-year-old\u00a0Jakelin Caal Maquin, who had traveled with her father to the US from a rural area in Guatemala&#8217;s impoverished Alta Verapaz region, died\u00a0while in custody at a US Border Patrol detention center.<\/p>\n<p>They were among a group of 163 migrants detained by Border Patrol agents the night of December 6 &#8212; three days after her birthday &#8212; in a remote area of the New Mexico desert, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later,\u00a0Jakelin had died, Customs and Border Protection&#8217;s officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jakelin had vomited and stopped breathing while in Border Patrol custody. She later went into cardiac arrest and suffered brain swelling at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, where doctors determined she&#8217;d had no food or water for days.<\/p>\n<p>US Border Patrol is investigating the incident to make sure&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/15\/583014\/US-Trump-Immigration-Policy-Guatemala-Child\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of an immigrant child, who died in custody in the United States, has reignited\u00a0criticism of US President Donald Trump&#8217;s anti-immigration policies.\u00a0 Seven-year-old\u00a0Jakelin Caal Maquin, who had traveled with her father to the US from a rural area in Guatemala&#8217;s impoverished Alta Verapaz region, died\u00a0while in custody at a US Border Patrol detention center. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}