Posted on 03/12/2020 1:47:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
HOUSTON -- A 19-year-old pregnant woman from Guatemala died this week from injuries suffered when she fell trying to climb the U.S. border wall near El Paso, Texas, U.S. and Guatemalan authorities said Thursday.
Guatemala identified the woman as Mirian Stephany Girón Luna. Medical personnel tried to deliver her baby, but were unsuccessful, both governments said. The U.S. said Girón was eight months pregnant, while Guatemalan authorities said she was at seven months.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection blamed Girón's death on human smugglers who encouraged her to try to climb the wall. In a statement, Gloria Chavez, the chief for the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector, said the authorities would work with Mexico “to find those responsible for placing these lives in danger.”
CBP Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan told reporters that Girón and her partner were taken to the border by smugglers and left there in the darkness. They were attempting to climb when she fell. Border Patrol agents reached her and called medical authorities, who took her to the hospital but “tragically, the mother and the child died from their injuries from the fall,” he said.
Girón is from Guatemala’s San Marcos department, near the country’s border with Mexico. CBP says it has no record of her trying to enter the U.S. at an official port of entry or having been placed in the “Remain in Mexico” program, in which tens of thousands of migrants have been forced to pursue their immigration cases from Mexico.
Her partner remains in Border Patrol custody, according to U.S. and Guatemalan officials.
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Blame it on Corona Virus.
WINNING!!!
KAG!!!
MSM will attribute her death to Trump in 3...2...1...
Sucks to be her. Did she think we were kidding when we put up the wall?
DOUBLE WINNING!!!!! Happy Dance!!!!
Sad story, but walls do work... it must be completed NOW...
Trump missed an opportunity to close the border, Mexico is dirty and ripe for the wuhan virus.
I’m sure they’ll say no. We’ll be help responsible...at least in the slimey-traitorous media.
That will be the day!
Why did MEXICO force her to Climb this Wall?? Or did they just let her dit for fun?? Shouldn’t MEXICO be Answering for this??
1. Proves that the Anchor Baby misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment needs to be nullified (it’s a State Department regulation, not a law) and replaced with a law spelling out that at least one parent must be a US person
2. Proves that no matter what you do, these idiots will still manage to kill themselves on the border. If the wall wasn’t there, they’d be dying in the desert of something - lack of food, water, brains...
So sorry to hear she was so foolish to climb the wall.
Probably something like 'you climb or we kill you.'
Uh, they shouldn’t have tried to climb the wall then, eh?
The ‘refugees’ should not forget, crossing our borders illegally is not something heroic or to be admired.
Crossing our borders illegally remains a crime, regardless of motivation. It is not America’s duty to absorb all the poor and all the desperate from all points of the earth.
That idea was simply a line in a poem. It is not policy, not has it ever been.
Yup. Shut it down yesterday. At some point there will be a major push of hundreds of thousands or millions of people rushing the border at one time due to this crisis or another one.
Her partner remains in Border Patrol custody, according to U.S.
No she fell on our side so of. Purse we are on the hook for the hospital care of her and her baby.
Of course.
Darn autocorrect
Two birds, one fall.... as the kids say....Just sayin’.
The reaction the media want is we should have no wall, it is too dangerous.
Yup. Looks like the wall works. My taxes at work..
Ive been advocating landmines for 10 plus years on FR but some limp-wrist Freepers think Im too hard core and inhumane..
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