A seven-year-old girl has died after being taken into custody by the US Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Thursday. The girl, from Guatemala, died of dehydration and shock eight hours after she was taken into custody, the Washington Post reported. On December 6, the child and her father had been held by immigration authorities in the US state of New Mexico as part of a group of 163 people who approached US agents to turn themselves in, the newspaper reported. Al Jazeera