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'Dreamer' dies trying to rescue Harvey flood victims
L A Times ^ | 09/04/2017 | Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Posted on 09/05/2017 7:53:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Alonso Guillen drove more than 100 miles south from his home in Lukfin, Texas, last week, determined to help those trapped by Hurricane Harvey flooding in the Houston area.

But he and another man disappeared after their boat capsized in a flood-swollen creek Wednesday ...

Guillen moved to Lufkin at age 14 from just across the border in Piedras Negras, Mexico. He later graduated from Lufkin High School, attended St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, worked in construction and at a local club, Rodeo Disko, and radio station, SuperMix 101.9 FM.

He was known as “DJ Ocho,” who mixed country and hip-hop, followed Texans football and the Houston Astros, played softball and soccer, sported Cowboy hats and red, white and blue sunglasses.

...

Guillen masterminded the rescue trip to the Houston area just like one of his radio station fundraisers: on the fly, with friends’ help. After the storm hit, they borrowed a boat and drove south to save strangers.

Like many in Texas, Guillen’s family has mixed immigration status and is divided by the border. His mother, a Mexican national, still lives in Piedras Negras, Mexico, with one of his brothers. His father is a legal resident, and his brother Jesus is a U.S. citizen.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: US: Texas
KEYWORDS: dreamers; fakenews; hurricaneharvey; illegalalien; illegals; immigration; rescue
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To: BenLurkin

“Dreamer” trying to save “Non-Dreamer”


41 posted on 09/05/2017 8:20:59 AM PDT by jennychase
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To: henkster
If he’d stayed in Mexico he wouldn’t be dead.

Well....not by drowning anyway.

42 posted on 09/05/2017 8:26:10 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: BenLurkin

Ms. Hennessy-Fiske

43 posted on 09/05/2017 8:27:51 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: trebb

bttt


44 posted on 09/05/2017 8:31:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Custom delivered news. I encourage the new terminology.


45 posted on 09/05/2017 8:33:16 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: BenLurkin

That’s tragic. But borrowing a boat to take into such an unstable situation is a bad idea if you aren’t an experienced boater.


46 posted on 09/05/2017 8:34:45 AM PDT by subterfuge (Save the monuments!!)
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To: BenLurkin

So if an illegal doper saved someone in Harvey, do we let all illegal dopers stay on? This is how the media has manipulated Americans for decades, shame them into accepting socialist rule.


47 posted on 09/05/2017 8:37:20 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: BenLurkin

So, according to ‘liberal logic’ one illegal dies attemping to doing the right thing and a million illegals should become citizens?

Gimme a break.


48 posted on 09/05/2017 8:42:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (Thanks God for the Cajun Navy and other volunteers... turns out the professionals DID need help...)
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To: BenLurkin

DACA is Caca!! DACA es Obama’s Caca!!


49 posted on 09/05/2017 8:44:57 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: BenLurkin; All

If you check the many versions of this story, you will find that the liberal hero was most likely a looter!

It just don’t line up with the facts. Some stories have him running into a bridge while driving to Houston. Others having him drowning in a small creek while trying to reach a apartment complex as the hurricane hit.

I vote that it was the latter, and he went to loot the apartments that had been evacuated.

Why was he there when the storm hadn’t even hit yet? He didn’t live near there.


50 posted on 09/05/2017 8:50:00 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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To: BenLurkin

A looter is what he was!


51 posted on 09/05/2017 8:50:41 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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To: BenLurkin
Guillen moved to Lufkin at age 14...

LOL!

52 posted on 09/05/2017 8:52:56 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Cowboy Bob

Guillen moved to a island with the Skipper, and...


53 posted on 09/05/2017 8:59:11 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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To: BenLurkin

30 years old....I thought dreamers were kids!!!!


54 posted on 09/05/2017 9:00:06 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Ray76
Let's stop with the "Dreamer" crap.

For every one BS feel good,propaganda,Alinski-esque drivel,I can give a hundred sickening examples of why they should not be here in our country.

55 posted on 09/05/2017 9:13:10 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Beagle8U

But he wore red , white , and blue sunglasses .


56 posted on 09/05/2017 9:34:51 AM PDT by katykelly
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To: henkster

> If he’d stayed in Mexico he wouldn’t be dead.

Best comment on the thread !!!


57 posted on 09/05/2017 9:52:36 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: Tennessee Nana
...oh look how all 800,000 illegal alien “children” are so nice ...they all deserve to stay...

No, they don't. But not ALL deserve to be summarily ejected from the only country many of them have known. There is NO easy answer to this one.

58 posted on 09/05/2017 10:05:14 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Beagle8U

Link please


59 posted on 09/05/2017 10:05:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: JimRed; Liz

oh stop with that bleeding heart “only country they have ever known” junk...

what do you think IMMIGRANTS experience ???

Clue:

they leave the only country they have ever known and come to a strange country they have never lived in ...

I did it...they can too...

Plus unlike po lil me, the illegal alien “children” wont be alone..they have their illegal alien parents going with them to help them adjust to the old country...plus more family at home to welcome and succor them..

Keeping families together...how nice...

their parents use to live in the country they are being deported to...

PLUS many of the illegal alien so called “children” were grown ups they were TEEENAGERS 16, 17, 18 29 years old when they came here...

many of them are older than I was when I left “the only country I had ever known”

I made it ...why cant they ???

sounds like they aren’t good material to be in our rugged country...they better go back home where they will be safe and comfy...


60 posted on 09/05/2017 10:16:34 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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