Juan de León Gutiérrez (left) a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody on April 30, and his former teacher Jimmy Cristian Gutiérrez García (right).
Posted on 05/03/2019 12:02:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The 16-year-old boy who died in U.S. custody April 30, days after crossing the southern border following a long and perilous trek from Guatemala "was a very nice student, intelligent, creative, but shy," according to a former teacher.
Juan de León Gutiérrez's former elementary school teacher described him as a hardworking boy who helped his father in the region's dwindling coffee fields, where drought and decreasing prices have led to debt and unemployment.
Gutiérrez was apprehended by border patrol agents near El Paso on April 19 and transported the next evening to Casa Padre, a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in Brownsville, Texas. When he awoke on April 21, staff noticed he appeared ill, and nine days later he died in a hospital bed. The Guatemalan Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Gutiérrez died from complications from an infection in his brain's frontal lobe.
García recalled with sadness that Gutiérrez was a very motivated kid who "demonstrated ability in many things."
García said when the boy missed class he would run out to the road as García walked by to explain his absence—it was typically because his father needed help in the fields.
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Juan de León Gutiérrez (left) a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody on April 30, and his former teacher Jimmy Cristian Gutiérrez García (right).
Should have stayed in his own country.
Obviously Trump is injecting brain cancer in these kids. What a racist.
How much did it cost to put him in the hospital for 9 days? Who is paying for it?
The President should send a bill to the Vatican, given how much the Pope wants to help out.
Hey teacher...
I am not happy this kid died.
As for dreams, our children’s dreams come first.
Let that sink in you ass.
1. When the media says an undocumented alien (no documents, right?) is sixteen that means he may actually be twenty-eight...or thirty...but claiming he’s sixteen makes for a better story to push an open borders agenda.
2. When the media has to show a picture of one of these aliens as a little kid that means the adult picture would show a snarling monster with all sorts of gang tattoos including the tear drops near the eye to signify how many people this ‘little angel’ has proudly murdered.
Amazing how simple it is.
He had some prior illness and that is what killed him.
Sad, but he would have died anyway, anywhere.
The article itself said:
” died from complications from an infection in his brain’s frontal lobe.”
Sounds like the boy was too sick to travel. Making that truck could have been the nail in the coffin.
I guess there are no humble American teenagers, just as American children have no dreams. Only illegals are permitted to have dreams.
May he rest in peace.
The headline insinuates he died _because_ he was in U. S. Custody.
Sorry for the boy.
But I hate how whenEVER media want a sympathetic view of a teenager, he is suddenly described as a “child”.
My cynical side also kind of assumes these elder “children” are MS13 gangers.
I don’t know much about Guatemala. Is it as corrupt as Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba?
George Soros and the Democrat party have his blood on their hands.
You want a sad story?
I’ve got a thousand of them.
Let’s take care of the sad stories in our country first before we take on responsibility for every woman in this world who has sex.
“Making that truck could have been the nail in the coffin.”
Regardless of that, many children have been killed or abused trying to enter this country illegally. Who has created such strong incentives for illegal entry into the United States? Where have the perverse incentives to have children along when crossing the border illegally or claiming asylum come from?
[Let’s take care of the sad stories in our country first]
That’s not very New World Order of you.
I’m afraid I’ll have to report you to Party Central and Komrade Pelosi.
We’ll also have to unfriend you from Facebook for a week.
Suuure, CBS went to Guatemala and hunted down this guy’s elementary school teacher. I have a bridge for sale.
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