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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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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hopefully, her sad and tragic story will deter others.


61 posted on 03/12/2020 2:24:51 PM PDT by RatRipper
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To: Zhang Fei
In the Middle Ages, the powers-that-be would have dangled their carcasses from the wall...

Something to look forward to next week, then.

62 posted on 03/12/2020 2:25:25 PM PDT by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chance)
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To: Grimmy

I have mixed feelings.

I am sorry someone died
And
I am happy the wall is working.


63 posted on 03/12/2020 2:25:27 PM PDT by fproy2222 (Keep Families Great)
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To: Impala64ssa

That was the first thing that stuck out to me.


64 posted on 03/12/2020 2:25:38 PM PDT by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: RatRipper

Just maybe this now dead illegal alien invader shouldn’t have put her child at risk? Just maybe? However, you would think that the leftists would like this because she did kill her unborn child. The leftists have done that to tens of million of unborn children in America.


65 posted on 03/12/2020 2:28:57 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Play stupid games win stupid prizes


66 posted on 03/12/2020 2:29:56 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: fproy2222

Normal human.

Kinda sucks but it is what it is.

Long run, though, I think of the huge potential for life saving. So many of those brought over with the illegal invader swarms are young children meant for the sex slave market.

So, imo, lining a few hundred illegals up at the wall and shooting them dead as a real warning to the rest would still be way more benefit than horror.


67 posted on 03/12/2020 2:32:09 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: VAFreedom

And razor wire


68 posted on 03/12/2020 2:32:22 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: BenLurkin

We don’t even need to worry about a felony murder rule. An attempt to bring a person into the US illegally resulting in death is a capital offense under 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(B)(iv). DOJ does seek the death penalty when prosecuting this offense, and did so even during the Obama Administration.

I remember a case in 2015 where a woman trying to swim across the Brownsville Shipping Channel at night was killed when a Coast Guard boat hit her. The coyote (who I think was her cousin) was arrested and charged under section 1324, and the Obama DOJ sought the death penalty. He ultimately plea-bargained to a long sentence (I don’t remember, but it might have been life).


69 posted on 03/12/2020 2:33:42 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: arthurus

She should have gone about it the right way instead of breaking the law. It would probably be an easier trek to go to a check point and apply for immigration. They would both be alive. Democrats should stop encouraging them to come in illegally.


70 posted on 03/12/2020 2:33:45 PM PDT by spudville
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To: PGR88

I doubt the wall is on the actual boarder. It is more likely a couple of feet inside. Don’t see Mexico giving permission for the workers to be on their side while building it. If that is the case then would a child born at the base of it be considered a US citizen?


71 posted on 03/12/2020 2:33:58 PM PDT by Kadric
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anchor baby effort going on there at 8 months pregnant.


72 posted on 03/12/2020 2:34:03 PM PDT by caww
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Might want to make the wall a few feet higher just to be sure.

With a good radius towards Mexico at the top quarter.


73 posted on 03/12/2020 2:34:05 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: DLfromthedesert

[I appreciate your post. So many are so callous. I also am for the wall, but I also feel bad for these desperate people.]


I feel bad for all of the people who feel they have to leave the country of their birth and their forebears to come here as illegal aliens. The issue is the social problems they cause by being here, the principal one of which is their effect on wages, which is pushing the entire country towards socialism. With every illegal entry, the proportion of the country that is pushing us towards Chavismo and Fidelismo increases. We simply cannot take any more of these people. That they die in transit is sad, but hopefully a deterrent to future illegal border crossers. Frankly, we are at the point where we need to zero out *all* immigration for at least 40 years, the way Hoover’s executive order shut down


74 posted on 03/12/2020 2:35:38 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: spudville

For Democrats she and her baby(whom they would otherwise prefer to about) serve as a Bloody Shirt to wave.


75 posted on 03/12/2020 2:36:36 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
pregnant 19 year old dies

They say this like it’s a bad thing. She was coming here to steal from the overburdened taxpayers. To hell with her. More of them should die. Nobody forced her to come although I suspect the Catholic Church had a hand in convincing her to come. If she wasn’t trying to steal from the US taxpayers she’d still be alive.

76 posted on 03/12/2020 2:39:26 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Impala64ssa

Great point. Leftist hypocrisy is never-ending. Ought to save this article to shove into the leftist faces when they claim the pregnancy is only a clump of cells.


77 posted on 03/12/2020 2:39:31 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: from occupied ga

It’s not a sin or error if you are obeying the word of God and the Catholic Church. Right?


78 posted on 03/12/2020 2:42:59 PM PDT by Rapscallion
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s child when the MSM wants it to be. But, if she had crossed into the border and gotten an abortion, it would have only been a fetus.


79 posted on 03/12/2020 2:44:28 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Rapscallion

Just ask Pope Frankie


80 posted on 03/12/2020 2:44:44 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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