U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the deaths of two migrants this week more than two months after agents found them having medical emergencies.
When a migrant shows signs of having a medical emergency and dies in the field, en route to the hospital or after getting initial treatment there, CBP does not consider their death to have been in-custody.
In August, CBP says agents quickly treated a just-apprehended woman who looked dehydrated. A city ambulance took her to an El Paso hospital and she died within 24 hours.
Two days later, and about 200 miles west, agents on horseback reported that they found a man unconscious but alive.
They carried him to a highway on a board because air evacuations were not available. The man rode a city ambulance to a Douglas hospital and was declared dead within an hour.
The chief medical examiner for Pima County has identified him as 20-year-old Roman Francisco Gasga Guillen of Mexico.
