(El Paso, TX) -- The eight-year-old boy who died in the custody of Customs and Border Patrol is being identified as Felipe Alonzo-Gomez. Congressman Joaquin Castro of Texas issued a statement on the second Guatemalan child to die this month in the custody of agents.
Castro is the chairman-elect of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and he is calling for an investigation into the death. A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died earlier this month while in the custody of Border Patrol agents.