Customs and Border Protection said in a statement Tuesday the 8 year old Guatemalan boy was already in CBP custody on Monday when he became ill and was taken to a New Mexico hospital.
- U.S. border agency chief says agents did everything they could to save Guatemalan children
- Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson visits Texas border where second child died
- 8-year-old boy is the 2nd Guatemalan child to die in U.S. custody this month