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FILE - This Dec. 12, 2018 file photo provided by Catarina Gomez shows her stepbrother Felipe Gomez Alonzo, 8, near her home in Yalambojoch, Guatemala. An autopsy report confirmed Wednesday, April 3, 2019, that Gomez Alonzo, an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died while in custody of the U.S. Border Patrol on Christmas Eve, succumbed to a flu infection — one of two deaths of Central American children in December that drew attention to the plight of migrant families at the southern border. (Catarina Gomez via AP, File)

Autopsy: Migrant boy who died in US had flu infection

By MARY HUDETZ - Associated Press

Catarina Alonzo Perez, the mother of Felipe Gomez Alonzo, stands in the Yalambojoch church during a brief ceremony to pay their final respects to her son, in Yalambojoch, Guatemala, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. Felipe, 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. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Guatemalan boy who died in US custody laid to rest

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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

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)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s political spin on migrant deaths

By CALVIN WOODWARD - 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

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2018, file photo, Annunciation House director Ruben Garcia answers questions from the media after reading a statement from the family of Jakelin Caal Maquin, pictured at left, during a press briefing at Casa Vides in downtown El Paso, Texas. Caal, died Dec. 8 in El Paso. She showed signs of sepsis shock, a potentially fatal condition brought on by infection, officials said. (Rudy Gutierrez/The El Paso Times via AP, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump twists facts of child migrant deaths

By CALVIN WOODWARD - 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)

Trump tries to deflect blame for migrant children’s deaths

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Neighbors carry the coffin that contain the remains of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin into her grandparent's home in San Antonio Secortez, Guatemala, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. The body of a 7-year-old girl who died while in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol was handed over to family members in her native Guatemala on Monday for a last goodbye. (AP Photo/ Oliver de Ros)

Democrats order Homeland Security to preserve ‘evidence’ on migrant deaths

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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)

Deaths of 2 children raise doubts about US border agency

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press