"Her death has deeply affected the Border Patrol agents involved in her case and the entire department. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones," Sec. Nielsen said of the death of Jakelin Caal who died in US custody.
Nielsen said unaccompanied children will be exempt from US plan to force asylum seekers along the southern border to remain in Mexico while their immigration case are processed.
"The goal is to protect those who seek asylum, it cannot be the way we do that is we force them to pay a smuggler trafficker and put themselves at risk," @SecNielsen.
