Deaths of Jakelin Caal and Felipe Gómez Alonzo

Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin (2011 – December 8, 2018) and Felipe Gómez Alonzo (2010 – December 24, 2018) were Guatemalan immigrant children who died, in separate incidents, while in the custody of the United States Border Patrol in December 2018, after having entered the country, by crossing the border between Mexico and the United States. Caal was a seven-year-old Qʼeqchiʼ girl from the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz who died from dehydration, shock and liver failure while in Border Patrol custody, having entered the country with her father, Nery Caal.

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