The mother of the 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody due to a medical emergency this week is speaking out.

Alvarez Benedicks, 35, crossed the border to Brownsville, Texas, with her husband and three children, aged 14, 12, and 8, on May 9, according to her report to the Associated Press. A doctor diagnosed the 8-year-old, Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, with influenza in Brownsville, which resulted in the family's transfer to the Harlingen station some 25 miles away on May 14. However, Benedicks knew there was a larger issue because her daughter had undergone heart surgery three years ago.

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“They killed my daughter, because she was nearly a day and a half without being able to breathe,” Benedicks said. “She cried and begged for her life, and they ignored her. They didn’t do anything for her."

Alvarez received saline fluids, a shower, and fever medication in the days before an ambulance was called on May 17. Benedicks reported that her daughter had no vital signs before she left in the ambulance.

Customs and Border Protections reported that emergency medical staff transported her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The cause of death is still a matter of open investigation.

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Alvarez was the second minor to die in Border Patrol custody in the last two weeks and the third this year. The last report of minor deaths was between 2018 and 2019, when at least six migrant children died in federal custody under the Trump administration, most of them in Border Patrol custody or soon after being released by the agency.