2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
In early December terrible news broke our hearts. The 7-year-old Jackeline Caal was killed after being arrested along with her father, both migrants, in New Mexico. Both she and her father Nery left the Altaverapaz indigenous community in northern Guatemala in search of a better world.
The two were arrested by a border patrol at a time when the little girl was in terrible health. Fever and vomiting made it clear that the little girl was not feeling well, shortly after, as she continued to get worse, she had to be attended by paramedics and ended up being hospitalized in a center in Texas.
Unfortunately, the seizures followed and later two cardiac arrests that the little girl could not overcome causing her death soon after. A fact that left her relatives deeply saddened by the terrible circumstances in which everything occurred.
The little girl did not have the opportunity to start a new life with better opportunities and a future full of possibilities. Rather, her heart stopped beating, struggling to make its way. "Our most sincere condolences to the girl's family," said the statement from the US Department of Homeland Security.
The lack of water, food and the hardness of the road led the little girl to get this bad. The controversy that has jumped to the media in the last few hours is if the border agents knew about the girl's discomfort and if they treated her as she needed, with food and water and medical needs for her state.
Immigrant groups, lawyers and activists, according to the New York Times, have denounced the terrible conditions in the cells of the Border Patrols that have come to be classified as filthy, cold and without elements as basic as blankets.
According to this newspaper, the attorney for Human Rights in Guatemala, Jordán Rodas, commented that it was a human drama "to which many Guatemalans are condemned due to the indifference of their rulers." He also asked on behalf of many that it was time to change the treatment of migrants who are forced to flee their land driven by hunger and poverty.
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