The Department of Homeland Security has removed the top medical official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection amid a widening investigation into the death of an 8-year-old girl held in U.S. custody last month at a border station in Harlingen, Texas.
David Tarantino, the chief medical officer at CBP, has been reassigned, according to agency officials.
Border officials say they have raised their standards of care in recent years amid record numbers of crossings by families and children whose needs are ill-suited to holding cells that were designed for adults. CBP established its chief medical officer role in 2020 following the deaths of several children taken into border custody during a record surge of migrant families in 2018 and 2019.
Born in Panama to parents from Honduras, the girl crossed into the United States with her family on May 9. During an initial CBP medical screening, Reyes’ mother provided the agency with documents and information about the child’s delicate medical history. Reyes “cried and begged for her life” as she grew sicker, but staff “didn’t do anything for her,” her mother told the
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