An eight-year-old girl died on Wednesday in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol in Harlingen, Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) said.
The child died at a local hospital after experiencing a medical emergency at the agency's station in Harlingen, the CPB said in a press release on Wednesday.
The agency said it was conducting an investigation into the death of the girl, who was in custody with her parents at the station when the medical emergency occurred. Her name and country of origin were not released.
The news came less than a week after a migrant teenager from Honduras died while in government custody in the state of Florida.
The incident also follows the lifting of Title 42, a pandemic-era immigration policy that empowered the U.S. to swiftly turn away migrants encountered at its border with Mexico.
Title 42, which was enacted by former President Donald Trump in March 2020, expired on May 11.
