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The death of an eight-year-old migrant girl in US border custody has been called "a preventable tragedy" by an independent report.
Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez died in hospital on 17 May after she fell ill at a border patrol site in Texas.
Investigators later determined that she had an underlying medical condition and was denied repeated requests for care.
A "series of failures" by border agents resulted in the girl's death, the report concluded.
The report was written by Paul Wise, a paediatrician who is tasked with ensuring that the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) comply with providing basic services to migrants under their care.
In his report, filed to in a federal court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Mr Wise accused Border Patrol of systemic failures that ultimately led to Reyes Alvarez's death.