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"A very humble child full of dreams": Teacher describes migrant boy who died in U.S. custody
CBS "News" ^ | May 3, 2019 | By Graham Kates, Angel Canales

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.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bias; border; elsalvador; fakenews; guatemala; honduras; illegalaliens; illegals; invasion; journalism; liberalagenda; theresthatwordagain
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To: SaveFerris

Re Post #19...That’s funny...


61 posted on 05/03/2019 2:22:19 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Deplorable American1776

;)


62 posted on 05/03/2019 2:23:05 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They can’t make me care. I’m done. Not our fault.


63 posted on 05/03/2019 2:32:31 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Shouldn’t have tried to rob our country of a free education, housing, food, etc. I hope his “brain infection” is not contagious to Americans.


64 posted on 05/03/2019 2:41:43 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

Why didn’t this adult teacher advise this wonderful student to stay in his own country and make it a better place? How irresponsible. There is blood on this teacher’s hands.


65 posted on 05/03/2019 2:53:38 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 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

Sounds like a great young kid who could have done Guatemala a lot of good if he'd stayed there, studied, gone to work and become a productive citizen of that country rather than trying to illegally enter another nation.
66 posted on 05/03/2019 3:04:55 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Imagine, some reporter managed to find the kids teacher
to find out that he was turning his life around and
aspired to become a Rap star.

It would appear that traveling though latin America
can be hazardous to your health. Who knew?


67 posted on 05/03/2019 3:09:16 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Innovative

The article itself said:

” died from complications from an infection in his brain’s frontal lobe.”

Probably liberal socialism, it happens a lot.
Sometimes they keep upright and still stumbling around.


68 posted on 05/03/2019 3:11:21 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Awwwwwwwwwwww

‘Tis a pity


69 posted on 05/03/2019 3:48:01 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Pussie Smollett, Mizzou, campus fake nooses, fake "protests" FAKE EVERYTHING Hey CNN? lol)
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To: Innovative

The boy likely died of encephalitis. The condition is most often due to a virus, such as a herpes simplex virus, the varicella zoster virus (which causes chickenpox and shingles), and measles, mumps, and rubella viruses. Encephalitis frequently has fatal consequences and may manifest only after an apparent recovery from the primary symptoms of the viral infection.


70 posted on 05/03/2019 7:39:02 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yep.


71 posted on 05/03/2019 9:48:25 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: qaz123; Chode; All

Well based on the Foot Surgery (Out Patient) I just had costing $28,000.00 +/- before the Medicare Insurance Provider declined to pay for All the inflated individual charges and that brought it down to something like $17,000.00 or so this Kids Bill was probably $250,000.00 or so...

Us the Taxpayers will get to pay for it.

Maybe President Trump should send the Bill to kim un dingdong chia pet jr.


72 posted on 05/03/2019 11:51:01 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: mabarker1

I really don’t mean to get into your personal business, but did you get some type of bionic foot or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uPdkhMVdMQ


73 posted on 05/04/2019 5:56:24 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: qaz123

LOL !!! One would think so. The damned bill is like 19 pages, most of it came from the Department of Redundancy . I’m still trying to figure it out just what the Department of Redundancy, So at the risk of Repeating Myself, Oh damned it!!!

Remove Left Little toe and move a Tendon from the right side to left to straighten the twist on the foot. Doc made it sound easy... He also is working on an open wound that just doesn’t want to heal. Have done weakly Bandage changes for 1-1/2 months post Surgery...


74 posted on 05/04/2019 7:56:31 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BOO double Hoo!

If his irresponsible parents had merely STAYED HOME...


75 posted on 05/04/2019 4:35:55 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: proud American in Canada

trek


76 posted on 05/04/2019 4:36:52 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
The headline insinuates he died _because_ he was in U. S. Custody.

Nope. It staes; quite clearly; that TRUMP'S!! racist American policies is what killed him; leaving him to die so horribly; broiling in the desert sun; just inches away from the Government supplied health care that is freely available to ALL in this country!!

77 posted on 05/04/2019 4:41:11 PM PDT by Elsie
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