Laredo, December 28 (RHC)-- In immigration news, a 41-year-old Congolese asylum seeker died on Christmas Day in a Customs and Border Protection holding facility in Laredo, Texas, only one day after she arrived to the U.S.-Mexico border with her family.  

U.S. authorities said she was medically screened after she provided paperwork highlighting a previous medical condition.  On-site medical personnel reportedly cleared her and transferred her to the holding facility for processing. 

A press release from CBP says the woman, who has not been identified, complained of abdominal pain and vomited before she was transferred to a local hospital, where she died on December 25th.  The woman’s family has since been released from CBP custody.  Her death comes less than one week after a 56-year-old Nigerian man died in Maryland while in ICE custody.