Posted on 07/02/2014 10:34:07 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Guatemala Gilberto Ramos wanted to leave his chilly mountain village for the United States to earn money to treat his mother's epilepsy.
His mother begged him not to go. "The better treatment would have been if he stayed," Cipriana Juarez Diaz said in a tearful interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. When he wouldn't relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage.
A month later, his decaying body was found in the Texas desert. Now, the boy has become a symbol for the perils faced by a record flood of unaccompanied children from Central America who are crossing illegally into the U.S.
Authorities said Monday that Gilberto was 11, which would have made him one of the youngest known children to die crossing the desert. But his parents said Tuesday that Gilberto was 15.
The parents explained that they had taken several years to register his birth because of the remoteness of their village in Guatemala's northern mountains. When they did, they had forgotten Gilberto's actual birth date, so they listed the same date as his younger brother.
The boy was shirtless, having likely suffered heat stroke, but still wearing the rosary.
"He was a good son," Juarez said. "May God give me the strength to endure."
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May GOD give him a better life in heaven. He deserves it. Bless his family...
She is the parent. Parents are in charge. I do not know the age of this kid, but if this kid is under 18, they should not allow their child to do this.
You can blame Obama for this. I would wager they had their minions down there encouraging these kids to come here.
This is immoral and the outcome of immoral people who care only about power.
That does not mean it is our job to fix it. If we care, we should dump this administration from power and bring them up on charges. This whole thing is sickening.
Rule by anecdote.
Flashbangs. They're for the children.
But there is good news; the puppy survived.
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