DACA Recipient Drowned Saving Neighbors~ ICE Won't Let Mom Cross Border to Bury Son
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Is that is who we have become? How is America first? I think America is way last and everyone will remember after these storms pass. We are only on this Earth a short time and if these injustices are what we are known for, imagine if there was a God? I think everyone who is involved, whether implementing or ending DACA cannot justify it and say like a German Soldier said in 1946, I do as Commanded...I did it for the good...What good when it hurt us financially, morally, every way?? And just because a politician promised it because it went well with the theme of no immigrants like Nancy Reagan just say no with drugs which made it more difficult to fight drugs in schools! No slogan can be justified if it's unjust. untrue, inhuman. We were supposed to be a just country, at least on paper. (Adam)
Is that is who we have become? How is America first? I think America is way last and everyone will remember after these storms pass. We are only on this Earth a short time and if these injustices are what we are known for, imagine if there was a God? I think everyone who is involved, whether implementing or ending DACA cannot justify it and say like a German Soldier said in 1946, I do as Commanded...I did it for the good...What good when it hurt us financially, morally, every way?? And just because a politician promised it because it went well with the theme of no immigrants like Nancy Reagan just say no with drugs which made it more difficult to fight drugs in schools! No slogan can be justified if it's unjust. untrue, inhuman. We were supposed to be a just country, at least on paper. (Adam)
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| 4 people found drowned over sat-sun |
Alonso Guillen died while trying to rescue victims of the devastating flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey north of Houston. He didn’t have to die. Guillen, 31, lived in Lufkin, TX, over 100 miles northeast of where he ultimately perished trying to save people.
But Guillen, who came to the U.S. from Mexico as a teenager and was a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, decided to head south with friends after Harvey hit to help out with a borrowed boat, the Houston Chronicle reported.
At about midnight on Wednesday, as the trio tried to reach an apartment building to rescue people inside, their boat hit an interstate bridge and capsized. One person managed to survive in the swift and perilous currents, but the other two, including Guillen, died, according to the newspaper.
As the Chronicle reported:
Guillen’s father, Jesus Guillen, said he’d asked his son not to try and rescue people in the storm, but he insisted, saying he wanted to help people. He cried and prayed on Sunday afternoon as they pulled his son’s body from the water.
Guillen’s mother, Rita Ruiz de Guillen, 62, lives 340 miles west of Houston, just across the U.S. border in Mexico. Upon learning of her son’s death, she tried to obtain a humanitarian visa to cross the border and bury her son, the Chronicle reported. But border agents turned her away.
President Donald Trump appears poised to announce the ending of the DACA program on Tuesday, according to news reports.
Nearly four days after Harvey's record flooding slammed a rescue boat into an Interstate 45 frontage road bridge, family members of the final, missing volunteer pulled his body from Cypress Creek in Spring.
Alonso Guillen, a 31-year-old disc jockey from Lufkin, disappeared on Wednesday around midnight along with two friends after their boat hit the bridge over the creek and capsized. One of them was rescued after clinging to a tree in the rushing water, but days later, after the rains let up and the creek level receded, Guillen and Tomas Carreon Jr. were still missing.
Searchers spotted Carreon's body floating down the wide, swift-moving creek on Friday around 1 p.m.
On Sunday afternoon, Guillen's body floated past a sandy berm where family members had been keeping watch for days, staring out at the murky water. A relative dove in and pulled him to the shoulder of the creek until they were able to bring a boat over to get him to shore.
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