Death of a second migrant children detained in the United States

US border control authorities have ordered all migrant children in detention to undergo medical examinations following the death on Christmas night of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy, sixteen days after a girl's death from the same country.

This tragedy immediately revived the debate on the fate of migrant children, Democrats lambasting "contempt for human life" of the Trump administration and calling for "put an end to this anti-migrant policy."

The boy, arrested by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), was "transferred immediately" Monday with his father to a hospital in New Mexico after showing "signs of possible illness", according to a CBP press release sent to AFP.