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For migrants, the border fence between the United States and Mexico is nothing more than a dividing line between a bitter reality and a dream that continues to haunt the imagination of thousands of people coming from Central America who are stranded at the fence, which has been strengthened by the policy of US President Donald Trump, which observers describe as “cruel and hostile to immigrants.” Thousands of kilometers have been traveled by migrants in Central American countries to escape poverty and destitution before they reach the town of Tijuana in Mexico, where they begin attempts to climb the separation fence and jump into United States territory. These attempts often fail, as the attempt involves bypassing Mexican border guards and then climbing a high wall heavy with a barbed wire fence. After that, they have to bypass American security and military surveillance, which has intensified recently. There are some of these immigrants who are lucky enough to “smile” at them and succeed in crossing the fence, after which another kind of suffering begins: a hopeless wait in detention centers that may be the last rock on which this American dream will be broken. Mexican officials say about 1,000 people from a Central American migrant caravan have jumped or cut through fences to reach the United States since arriving in the border city of Tijuana. A seven-year-old girl dies in an American detention center A Guatemalan girl, no more than seven years old, was walking with her family yesterday, Friday, as part of the “Dreamers” procession towards the “Land of Salvation,” before she was arrested and thrown into an American detention center, (after she arrived in the United States), where death awaited her, due to “dehydration” and “shock,” according to what the American newspaper The Washington Post reported. The newspaper quoted a source in the US Customs and Border Protection Department as saying that the child, “who had not eaten or drunk for several days,” suffered convulsions only eight hours after being placed in the detention center, so she was transported by helicopter to a hospital, where she breathed her last. The child, who was exhausted and sick, did not receive more than an hour and a half of health care. White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told reporters: This is horrific and tragic. Our hearts go out to her family and to anyone who is in any kind of danger, and the risks they go through are many when they make this type of trip from the southern border. It is a terrible situation. The American spokesman did not answer questions about whether the Trump administration bears any responsibility for the death of the child. For more on Euronews: US police repel hundreds of migrants and temporarily close a border crossing with Mexico Mexico demands an investigation into America's firing of tear gas at the border