Deported Mexicans say bridge death linked to larger suicide problem
Source: KPBS
Mexican officials are investigating the death of a man they said likely jumped from a Tijuana bridge footsteps from San Diego about an hour after being deported from the United States.
...Figueroa told KPBS that Guadalupe Olivas Valencia, from the Mexican state of Sinaloa, was detained by U.S. immigration officials on Monday while trying to cross the border through the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Figueroa said Olivas was deported at 8:21 a.m. Tuesday, and was found dead about one hour later.
...The Department of Homeland Security also provided this background on Olivas: According to DHS databases, Guadalupe Olivas-Valencia, was removed at least six times. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) conducted two of the removals in 2007 and 2016, which occurred after Olivas served federal sentences for two re-entry after deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326) convictions in Arizona and Texas. In 2005 ERO officers encountered Mr. Olivas at the Yuma County Adult Detention Facility, where he was serving time for a 1326 conviction. On Nov. 27, 2006, Upon release from custody, ERO removed Mr. Olivas to Mexico. On Oct. 4, 2016, ERO officers removed Olivas to Mexico after he completed a 16-month criminal sentencing in Texas prison for a 1326 conviction in 2015.
Olivas death came on the same morning the Department of Homeland Security announced new guidelines on deporting immigrants in the U.S. illegally, in accordance with President Trump's orders.
Read more: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2017/feb/22/deported-mexicans-say-bridge-death-linked-larger-s/
How desperate this man must have been to endure multiple imprisonments for crossing illegally, then jump off a bridge moments after being released from detention and deported back to Mexico.
This article says that suicides are common among the encampments in Mexico of people deported from the U.S. It also talks of abuses against them by Mexican police who reportedly have stolen or destroyed their papers, leaving them unable to find work in Mexico, so they are left in permanent limbo...and some apparently feel there is only one way out of that hell.
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