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Catarina Alonzo Perez, the mother of Felipe Gomez Alonzo, the second Guatemalan child this month to die while in U.S. custody near the Mexican border, pauses during an interview in her home in Yalambojoch, Guatemala, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. Felipe was chosen to make the journey north with his father because he was the oldest son. It didn’t occur to anyone that the road could be dangerous. “I didn’t think of that, because several families had already left and they made it,” Alonzo said. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala village mourns 2nd child to die in U.S. custody

By Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 20, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump gives the pen he used to sign the executive order to end family separations to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. On Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018, the president deflected any blame from his administration for the deaths of two Guatemalan children in December in U.S. government custody as his Homeland Security adviser visited Border Patrol medical officials amid promises of more thorough health screenings for migrant children. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

2nd child dead in US custody mourned in Guatemala village

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

This Dec, 12, 2018 photo provided by Catarina Gomez on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, shows her half-brother Felipe Gomez Alonzo, 8, near her home in Yalambojoch, Guatemala. The 8-year-old boy died in U.S. custody at a New Mexico hospital on Christmas Eve after suffering a cough, vomiting and fever, authorities said. The cause is under investigation. (Catarina Gomez via AP)

Father of dead Guatemalan boy heard rumors they could cross

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, an agent from the border patrol, observes near the Mexico-US border fence, on the Mexican side, separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, N.M. An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in government custody early Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018, U.S. immigration authorities said. (AP Photo/Christian Torres, File)

The Latest: Dad: Migrant child who died not previously ill

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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, an agent from the border patrol, observes near the Mexico-US border fence, on the Mexican side, separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, N.M. An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in government custody early Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018, U.S. immigration authorities said. (AP Photo/Christian Torres, File)

The Latest: CBP to do health check on all minors after death

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FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2018 file photo, firecrackers go off as a supporter in favor of a decision by Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales to shut down a U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission led by Ivan Velasquez, protests outside the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, CICIG, headquarters in Guatemala City. The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, that the country withdrew diplomatic immunity from 11 workers with the U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission who have investigated cases of alleged corruption, including ones targeting President Jimmy Morales’ son and brother. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Guatemala pulls diplomatic credentials of UN body’s workers

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

This Jan. 7, 2017 photo, shows the Antelope Wells port of entry from the El Berrendo, Mexico, side of the border with southern New Mexico. U.S. immigration officials are defending their actions in the detention of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died two days after she and her father were taken into custody along a remote stretch of the U.S. border. They were found near the Antelope Wells port of entry, which was closed when they arrived. It's not clear if they had been trying to cross legally. (Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Family of migrant girl disputes official story on her death

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Central American migrants moving as a caravan toward the U.S. border, one carrying a Mexican flag, get ready to leave Benito Juarez Auditorium that sheltered them overnight in Guadalajara, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Many say they are fleeing rampant poverty, gang violence and political instability primarily in the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

American taxpayers spend $27 million to ease deportees’ lives in Central America: GAO

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A man sits atop the U.S. border wall as he prepares to help other migrants climb over to San Ysidro, Calif., in order to surrender to the U.S. Border Patrol, in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Thousands of Central American migrants who traveled with recent caravans want to seek asylum in the U.S. but face a decision between crossing illegally or waiting months, because the U.S. government only processes a limited number of those cases a day at the San Ysidro border crossing. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Build a wall — on Mexico’s southern border

By Ethan Epstein - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 photo, Guatemalan migrant Cirila Alejandra Calelpu, 20, sitting, rests at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary migrant shelter in Las Cruces, N.M., after she and her 3-year-old daughter were released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Volunteer shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border say they are preparing for an expected surged of new immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. who will need temporary housing as the holidays approach. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

Supplies low for shelters helping migrants as holidays near

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

Darwin Dariel Paraon eats sitting next to a group of tents set up in a shelter for members of the migrant cavan, in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. As Mexico wrestles with what to do with more than 5,000 Central American migrants camped out at a sports complex in the border city of Tijuana, President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government signaled Tuesday that it would be willing to house the migrants on Mexican soil while they apply for asylum in the United States — a key demand of U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrant caravan mostly standard illegal immigrants, not asylum seekers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A girl relaxes next to her doll inside a temporary shelter set up for a splinter group of a migrant caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, in Cordoba, Veracruz state, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. Thousands of wary Central American migrants resumed their push toward the United States on Sunday, entering a treacherous part of the caravan’s journey on a trek through one of Mexico’s deadliest states, along what some called the “route of death” toward the town of Cordoba, Veracruz. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The Latest: Central America leaders want probe of caravans

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Maria Gomez, 22, carries her son David Moises, 1, as the thousands-strong caravan of Central Americans migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border moves onward from Juchitan, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Thousands of migrants resumed their slow trek through southern Mexico on Thursday, after attempts to obtain bus transport to Mexico City failed. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Third migrant caravan enters Mexico, heads for U.S. border

By Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press

Hundreds of migrants hitch a ride in a truck between Niltepec and Juchitan, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. The migrant caravan slowly advancing through southern Mexico is demanding that the Mexican government help its 4,000-some members reach Mexico City. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Second migrant caravan just 250 miles behind first group

By Christopher Sherman and Santiago Billy - Associated Press

Migrants sleep packed together in a church courtyard at nightfall, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central Americans hoping to reach the U.S. border stops for the night in Niltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. As the caravan resumed its slow advance Monday, still at least 1000 miles or farther from the U.S., the Pentagon announced it would send 5,200 active-duty troops to &quot;harden&quot; the border.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Migrant caravan demands transport as 2nd group enters Mexico

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARKO ALVAREZ - Associated Press

A new group of Central American migrants are met by Mexican Federal Police after the migrants waded in mass across the Suchiate River, that connects Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. The first group was able to cross the river on rafts — an option now blocked by Mexican Navy river and shore patrols. The police allowed the passage of the migrants. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Second migrant caravan enters Mexico despite heavy police presence

By Santiago Billy and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Central American migrants run from Mexican authorities during clashes on a border bridge that connects Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. A new group of migrants, who called themselves a second caravan, gathered on a bridge after forcing their way through a gate at the Guatemalan end. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

2nd group of migrants enters Mexico as main caravan resumes

By SANTIAGO BILLY and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Migrants travel on a cattle truck, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central American migrants slowly makes its way toward the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Arriaga, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Many migrants said they felt safer traveling and sleeping with several thousand strangers in unknown towns than hiring a smuggler or trying to make the trip alone. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Poverty, unemployment, violence drive Guatemalan emigration

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Chart to accompany Rahn article of Oct 23, 2018.

Hope for Central America may be found in new technologies

By Richard W. Rahn