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Pregnant 19-year-old, child die trying to climb US wall
ABC "News" ^ | March 12, 2020 | By NOMAAN MERCHANT, AP

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; childabuse; guatemala; illegalaliens; immigration; invasion; mexico; wall
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Shut down the damned border!
1 posted on 03/12/2020 1:47:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Proof of concept.

The wall works.


2 posted on 03/12/2020 1:48:28 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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we need to apply grease to the walls


3 posted on 03/12/2020 1:49:00 PM PDT by VAFreedom (maybe i should take a nap before work)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did she fall on the Mexican side?


4 posted on 03/12/2020 1:49:12 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who was there helping her? Charge them with felony murder.


5 posted on 03/12/2020 1:49:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, that was not very smart was it.


6 posted on 03/12/2020 1:50:19 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hoping for anchor-baby status.....remove the incentive of freebies!


7 posted on 03/12/2020 1:50:19 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I agree and shoot smugglers on sight when seen or found!


8 posted on 03/12/2020 1:51:02 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh well.


9 posted on 03/12/2020 1:51:04 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

sucks to be her, Democrats’ deeply saddened.


10 posted on 03/12/2020 1:51:36 PM PDT by bikerman
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Well, ABC "news", she was supposed to request asylum in Mexico before trying to illegally enter the U.S., so... she killed her baby.

Should we prosecute her in absentia for murder or consider it an abortion?

11 posted on 03/12/2020 1:51:44 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bet she doesn’t try that again.


12 posted on 03/12/2020 1:51:51 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: VAFreedom

I guess it would be wrong to spray coronavirus on the south side of the wall, wouldn’t it?


13 posted on 03/12/2020 1:52:05 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What side did she fall on?

I’m hoping this thing works.


14 posted on 03/12/2020 1:53:00 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In the Middle Ages, the powers-that-be would have dangled their carcasses from the wall as a warning to other would-be illegal border crossers. And the citizenry would have cheered.


15 posted on 03/12/2020 1:54:12 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She was stupid to attempt it in her condition.


16 posted on 03/12/2020 1:54:55 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: RasterMaster

Oh noes! Anchor baby-trafficking does not exist! We have been told this by the democrats many times.


17 posted on 03/12/2020 1:55:15 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did the autopsy check for coronavirus?


18 posted on 03/12/2020 1:55:28 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump’s Fault.

/s


19 posted on 03/12/2020 1:55:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: bikerman

I support the wall -and it’s major expansion - 100%...

At the same time, I have to say this is incredibly sad... she was somebody’s daughter, mother, sister... Smugglers - and those (Dems) who aid and abet them - should be held accountable ...


20 posted on 03/12/2020 1:56:54 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
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