A Victim In The Sweltering Tractor-Trailer Was A DREAMer Attempting To Reunite With His Family
A Victim In The Sweltering Tractor-Trailer Was A DREAMer Attempting To Reunite With His Family
Frank Guisseppe Fuentes was one of 10 victims who died Sunday while trapped inside a broiling tractor-trailer in Texas.
Posted on July 25, 2017, at 6:15 p.m.
Ellie Hall
BuzzFeed News Reporter
One of the 10 undocumented immigrants who died Sunday while trapped inside a broiling tractor-trailer in Texas was a 20-year-old who had lived in the United States and was deported to his native Guatemala within the last year.
On Monday, a spokesperson for Guatemala's Foreign Ministry identified Frank Guisseppe Fuentes as one of the 10 victims of the tragedy, which police are investigating as a human trafficking crime. Ministry spokesperson Tekandi Paniagua said that two other Guatemalans, aged 17 and 23, had survived and were in stable condition.
Authorities discovered 39 undocumented immigrants and 8 bodies in and around the tractor-trailer Monday in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio. James Matthew Bradley, the 60-year-old driver, has been charged with one count of transporting undocumented immigrants.
In an interview with Univision, the Guatamalen consul general in Houston, José Barillas, said Fuentes had been a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) and spent most of his life in the United States.
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