Officials: San Antonio truck victim, 19, grew up in Northern Va., was deported

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post


By Maria Sacchetti, Moriah Balingit and Fenit Nirappil July 25 at 4:35 PM

SAN ANTONIO — One of the undocumented immigrants who died in a stifling tractor-trailer here this weekend was a 19-year-old who lived in the United States and graduated from high school in Northern Virginia before apparently being deported to his native Guatemala, according to interviews with government officials and postings on social media.

Frank G. Fuentes was one of at least three Guatemalan nationals on a truck packed with undocumented immigrants and driven by James Matthew Bradley Jr., said Cristy Andrino, the consul of Guatemala in McAllen, Tex. Fuentes previously had lived in Virginia, Andrino said.

The Guatemalan government said Fuentes, who was initially described as 20-years-old, died of “heat exposure and asphyxiation.” Bradley has been charged with smuggling immigrants for financial gain resulting in death.

A Facebook page belonging to Fuentes, which was getting tagged with condolence messages on Tuesday, said he graduated from J.E.B. Stuart High School in Fairfax County in 2015. A school system official confirmed that a student by that name graduated that year. “He was caring and such a friendly person,” said fellow Stuart attendee Chris Garcia in a Facebook message. “He just wanted to [live] his life here.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/3-guatemalans-among-tractor-trailer-victims-including-one-of-the-dead/2017/07/25/f0b45af6-7131-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html

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[madokie]

1. fuck all the racist, xenophobic assholes of this world

If you're not a native American you come by way of immigrants. Most of all Americans today fit that mold

[Mickju]

2. Heartbreaking

But to Republicans he wasn't an actual human being.

[Hortensis]

3. I didn't think this could seem worse. One boy's life is

not worth more than another's, but he had become one of us and should have been safe here.

[Yo_Mama]

10. Even if you come in legally, any significant criminal behavior ends that. No one should die

like these people did - I think those responsible should have to answer to murder charges - but if this guy did start committing crimes, only being a born citizen would have prevented his deportation.

I have to admit I agree with that policy - people should not be able to come to the country and then live their lives here as criminals.

[Hortensis]

11. Oh, I agree sadly, in theory at least, subject to careful

scrutiny of individual cases. Not tossing out just everyone who's an American emotionally if not according to his paperwork, but those we need to get rid of.

Most stupid adolescents get a chance to grow out of it, though, and most do.

[LeftInTX]

14. But he grew up here. That is the difference.

If he had come as an adult, I would understand.

[Yo_Mama]

20. The fact that he was not legal has nothing to do with his deportation.

Even if you are here as a resident with a green card or some sort of visa program - there are tons - allowing you to work, if you commit significant crimes your status changes. You get turfed out. I believe that is so in just about every developed country.

He was DACA (in effect legalized). His DACA renewal was refused because DACA is terminated for criminal behavior or gang activity. Then he was deported. And that would have been true regardless of his status unless he were an American citizen.

These deaths, including his, are tragic and horrifying. But they are not due to abuse of immigrants.

[JI7]

4. He was just trying to get back home

[awesomerwb1]

5. Very sad news.

RIP all the victims.

This kid...just breaks my heart. sigh.

[barbtries]

6. is this Trump's first victim?

won't be the last...

[EL34x4]

9. Depends. When was he deported?

The Washington Post says he plead guilty to larceny and assault back in 2016, thus negating his DACA status.

[onenote]

12. He was deported in March 2017

based on an order issued in February following his arrest in July 2016.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/us/migrants-deaths-san-antonio-daca/

[EL34x4]

13. "convicted of assault and battery by a mob and suspected of being an MS-13 gang member"

Well, there goes the sympathy.

[lostnfound]

17. Collective punishment - misdemeanor. I'm suspicious we don't know story

Assault or battery by mob. Any and every person composing a mob which shall commit a simple assault or battery shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Until we find the story about that arrest, I wouldn't assume anything.

[Yo_Mama]

7. He was deported because of criminal behavior - before that he was DACA

And I think that's right, because it came from the Guatemalan consul:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/3-guatemalans-among-tractor-trailer-victims-including-one-of-the-dead/2017/07/25/f0b45af6-7131-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.ea33e501a492

Supposedly simple assault and grand larceny.

[flibbitygiblets]

8. My God, this is horrific. Print pictures of him with "Trump Victim" and post everywhere in DC

[christx30]

15. Can we post a picture of the person he assaulted,

and the rest of his MS-13 friends?

He didn't deserve to die this way, but let's face it. That's a violent gang. A violent death of some kind was pretty much inevitable.
I hope other profiles come out about the people that lost their lives. This one was a bad example.

[lostnfound]

18. Trying to find story of arrest..march 2016. Misdemeanor, collective punishment...

This guy worked at Dominos..graduated high school . friends claim he wasn't in a mob.

Assault or battery by mob (§ 18.2-42)—Virginia Decoded - Virginia Decoded
VAcode.org › ...
18.2-42. Assault or battery by mob. Any and every person composing a mob which shall commit a simple assault or battery shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

He lived in fairfax county. One article says it was march 2016 arrest. I found this, which mentions that one person was arrested in Virginia for mob assault as part of a nationwide ICE sweep.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/28/feds-arrest-hundreds-gang-members-project-shadowfi/

[lostnfound]

19. Part of a story on raids in Virginia that were part of this operation

http://www.nbc12.com/story/31581772/14-arrested-in-va-after-federal-gang-investigation?clienttype=generic&_ga=2.165680894.1550248443.1501068149-638070949.1501068149

[Sunlei]

16. odd,was he actually deported or are there corrupt border guards pack people who can pay in trailers

Drivers are often hired separately from what a trailer contains.