EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A government watchdog agency is looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two migrants in New Mexico and South Texas last year.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility last week issued a notice of review of the Aug. 14 death of a man from the Dominican Republic who apparently succumbed to the heat in Duval County, Texas.
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At approximately 9 p.m., Border Patrol agents encountered a group of migrants walking on a ranch. One of the migrants told border agents he was too weak to walk, so they carried him until they were met by other agents in a marked Border Patrol vehicle.
According to a CBP statement of the incident, the migrant was placed in the vehicle and transported out of the ranch; at 9:30 p.m., the citizen of the Dominican Republic became unresponsive and agents performed CPR while calling for an ambulance.
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At 9:54 p.m., almost an hour after the encounter, two border agents who are certified emergency medical technicians arrived. The agents continued assisting the man until an ambulance came at 10:31 p.m. and its crew assumed care of the patient and called in a helicopter to transport him to the hospital. A justice of the peace declared the migrant dead at 12:32 a.m. on Aug. 15…