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Venezuelan girl drowns in Rio Grande amid migration to US
The Associated Press ^ | January 21, 2022 | By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and CLAUDIA TORRENS

Posted on 01/21/2022 11:14:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Just days before Mexico began requiring visas for Venezuelan visitors in an attempt to slow their migration to the U.S. border, Mayerlin Mayor left her native Maracaibo with her 7-year-old daughter Victoria.

The 36-year-old school teacher living with her parents could no longer make ends meet in the face of triple-digit inflation. They traveled by bus from the western Venezuela oilfields to Medellin in the mountains of Colombia, where they boarded a flight to Mexico.

On Tuesday, mother and daughter attempted to ford the Rio Grande to Del Rio, Texas, with other migrants and smugglers. Victoria Lugo Mayor was swept away by the current, her body recovered later by Mexican authorities. Her mother made it across and was detained by U.S. Border Patrol.

“It’s very painful.... It’s a powerful blow to the family,” Guillermo Castillo, Victoria’s uncle, said by phone from Venezuela.

Mayor was released by Border Patrol with a notice to appear in court. She was assisted by a local humanitarian group in Del Rio.

Castillo, Victoria’s uncle, said that Mayor could no longer raise her daughter in Maracaibo, where the collapse of the oil industry has led to chronic shortages of gasoline and failures of the water system.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; brandon; communism; illegalaliens; invasion; marxism
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1 posted on 01/21/2022 11:14:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Certainly there must be someone in the the US government the family can sue....


2 posted on 01/21/2022 11:15:08 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She should have stayed home.


3 posted on 01/21/2022 11:15:19 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

Yup


4 posted on 01/21/2022 11:17:15 AM PST by dkGba
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Marxist News AP. Guaranteed Grade A- P Propaganda.


5 posted on 01/21/2022 11:17:24 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Perhaps Biden is trying to turn the USA into Venezuela as some sort of clever plan to make sure people stop trying to make this journey from Venezuela to the US.


6 posted on 01/21/2022 11:18:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("If you see something, say something?" I see people dying from vaccines.)
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To: ought-six

He parents should be prosecuted for child endangerment. The little girl was dragged along the dangerous route just to provide physical and legal cover for their efforts to infiltrate the US.


7 posted on 01/21/2022 11:19:25 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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Maracaibo looking better every day, isn’t it sweetie?


8 posted on 01/21/2022 11:19:41 AM PST by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: All

trump’s fault

evil right wing gun owning christian gringos fault


9 posted on 01/21/2022 11:20:15 AM PST by SteveH (.)
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No news on protecting the Ukraine border today?


10 posted on 01/21/2022 11:20:15 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stay

Home


11 posted on 01/21/2022 11:20:58 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sorry for her stupid death, but not our problem.


12 posted on 01/21/2022 11:21:02 AM PST by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The 36-year-old school teacher living with her parents could no longer make ends meet in the face of triple-digit inflation.

Just think. Americans are going to have no place to go when RAT socialism takes over the United States with triple digit inflation and single digit I.Q.s.

13 posted on 01/21/2022 11:21:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If she had stayed at home and worked to fix Venezuela she would still be alive.


14 posted on 01/21/2022 11:21:37 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

River is racist.
River’s fault.


15 posted on 01/21/2022 11:26:22 AM PST by cranked
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
very sad....we have a liberal immigration policy in the US and there should be no need for people to sneak in....

so sorry for the loss of this little girl....

16 posted on 01/21/2022 11:29:39 AM PST by cherry
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To: ClearCase_guy
Biden wasn't the only President turning America into Venezuela.

Trump Approves Deportation Protections for Venezuelans in U.S. Illegally

17 posted on 01/21/2022 11:34:32 AM PST by Theoria
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She should have been charged with child endangerment and first degree manslaughter and then locked. All this “immigration” is causing the U.S. to become a lawless, third world sh*tshow.


18 posted on 01/21/2022 11:35:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Her blood is on the hands of Brandon and Heels-up.


19 posted on 01/21/2022 11:38:11 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another victim of global communism.


20 posted on 01/21/2022 11:42:07 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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