After two migrant children died in Border Patrol custody over the past month, the Department of Homeland Security ordered more medical checks for minors in custody.
An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala, who the Guatemalan Foreign Service identified as Felipe Gomez Alonso, died on Christmas Eve at a hospital in Alamogordo, New Mexico, while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody.
Felipe had been traveling to the United States with his father.
Earlier this month, a 7-year-old girl also died while in Border Patrol custody.