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5th migrant child dies after detention by Border Patrol

(Eric Gay | AP file photo) A bend in the Rio Grand is viewed from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter on patrol over in Mission, Texas, in 2014. The U.S. government says a teenage Guatemalan died Monday, May 20, 2019, at a Border Patrol station in South Texas, the fifth death of a migrant child since December. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that Border Patrol apprehended the teenager in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley on May 13. The agency says the teenager was found unresponsive Monday morning during a welfare check at the agency's Weslaco, Texas, station. The teenager's cause of death is unknown.