AS FIFTH MIGRANT CHILD DIES ON DHS'S WATCH, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TOLD IT MUST PROVIDE ANSWERS: ‘THESE TRAGEDIES ARE PREVENTABLE AND THEY MUST END’

After a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy became the fifth migrant child to die in U.S. immigration custody since December on Monday, Congress members called on the Trump administration to answer to why these "preventable" deaths keep happening.

“Another 16-year-old minor, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, has died. Another family mourns the death of their child," Representative Raul Ruiz, a California Democrat who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus HealthCare and Mental Health Task ForceTask Force, said in a statement on Monday. "These tragedies are preventable, and they must end."

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