8-Year-Old Dies in Hospital After Illegally Crossing Border Into US

Cloverdale in New Mexico's Bootheel region shows a fenced part of the Diamond A Ranch and is 77 miles south of Lordsburg, N.M., the nearest U.S. Border Patrol station on Jan. 20, 2012. Russell Contreras/AP Photo/File

An 8-year-old boy has died in the hospital after he and his father illegally crossed the border into the United States, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said in a statement.

The boy from Guatemala died on Dec. 25 at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico.