Posted on 03/10/2022 7:18:49 PM PST by Morgana
A Colombian migrant's family is seeking answers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection after the married father-of-three died last month after crossing the United States-Mexico border and suffering a fatal fall.
Juan Rivera, 37, was found dead February 24 next to a steel border fence he had reportedly climbed after paying a smuggler $800 to ferry him into the U.S. before he abandoned him in along the border line outside Arizona.
Border agents assigned to U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma Sector encountered 19 migrants in San Luis and the group notified them of the possibility that another migrant may have died south of where they were stopped.
An agent canvassed the area and found Rivera's body between the primary and secondary border fences about 83 miles north of the United States-Mexico border.
San Luis (Arizona) Police Department lieutenant Marco Santana explained to Univision that Rivera scaled a wall that served as the international barrier between Mexico and the United States before proceeding to climb over the second wall - which he ultimately fell off.
'There is no other information that will shows that it was any other way than a fall in which he hit himself and ultimately lost his life,' Santana said.
Family members told Colombian news outlets that Rivera decided to migrate to the United States and was looking to settle in San Jose, California.
The Bogotá native was working in his father's butcher shop, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic he was barely making enough money to support his wife Karen Sánchez and their three children, aged 3, 6 and 10.
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B. Darwin Award
C. He was murdered
D. Both A and B
E. all of above
Anyone caught smuggling people should be shot on sight.
Simple. Don't try to climb over border fences.
True True but the people being smuggled should have better sense. It’s not like the smugglers are the most upstanding members of the community. They (the people being smuggled) should darn well know this by now.
I guess his coyote didn’t tell him that the fence isn’t finished.
He could have walked in or taken a short boat ride across a narrow slow-moving river.
BP authorities can tell his family “He broke the law and he did it stupidly. Anything else we can help you with?”
I question why he was trying to break into the country illegally.
The fence does its job...
Excrement happens when you don't stay where you belong!
OTOH, why is the border fence located 83 miles north of the border?
The steel border fence is just doing a fine job and paid for by American patriots.
I believe it says “between the primary and secondary fence.” The secondary fence is much further inside the border. Just like CBP highway checkpoints are usually 20-50 miles inside the border.
This is not a legal way to “migrate.”
He’s dead and that’s a good thing.
And being a “father of three” is supposed to make me weep? Any guy can be a father. It takes a real man to be a Dad.
No, his death is NOT a good thing.
Him not getting into the USA is a good thing.
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