Migrant mom: "I don't want other mothers and fathers to lose their children"

"I'm here today because I don't want any more little angels to suffer like Mariee." [View in browser]( [Image]( JULY 10, 2019 “We came to America, where I hoped to build a better, safer life for my daughter Mariee... Unfortunately, I watched my baby girl die, slowly and painfully. A few months before her second birthday, she ceased to exist." [Image]( 📸: Erin Scott / Reuters A migrant woman whose 19-month-old daughter died weeks after being released from a U.S. detention facility [gave emotional testimony]( at a congressional hearing Wednesday, saying her daughter died because of "neglect and mistreatment." Yazmin Juárez, who left Guatemala with her daughter Mariee to seek asylum in the United States, spoke about her daughter’s death during a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on Wednesday afternoon. Mariee died of a viral lung infection in May of last year, her mother said, a few weeks after being released from the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "I'm here today because I don't want any more little angels to suffer like Mariee," she said. "I don't want other mothers and fathers to lose their children." [Read more from NBC News' Daniella Silva]( Facing calls for his resignation, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta [defended his role](Wednesday in approving a plea deal for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that critics have called the “deal of the century.” Acosta, who at the time served as the U.S. attorney in south Florida, [said in a news conference]( that his office intervened in the case after state prosecutors failed to secure a plea deal that would have resulted in jail time for Epstein and give justice to his victims. “I wanted to help them, that is why we intervened, and that’s what the prosecutors of my office did," he said. 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