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He was brought to Virginia as a toddler, deported at 19 (TR)
Washington Post ^ | July 25, 20117 | Maria Sacchetti, Moriah Balingit and Fenit Nirappil

Posted on 07/26/2017 7:45:54 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

One of the undocumented immigrants who died in a stifling tractor-trailer here Saturday was a 19-year-old who grew up in Northern Virginia and graduated from a Fairfax County high school before getting in trouble with the law and being deported to his native Guatemala, according to court records and government officials.

He was sneaking back into the United States.

Frank G. Fuentes was one of at least six Guatemalans packed into a poorly ventilated truck with scores of other migrants who had crossed the border illegally, said Cristy Andrino, the consul of Guatemala in McAllen, Tex.

Frank G. Fuentes was born in Guatemala but lived most of his life in the United States before being deported in March. He was one of 10 undocumented immigrants killed in an overheated tractor-trailer on Saturday in Texas. (Family photo) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Fuentes had been brought to this country before his third birthday and was deported on March 2 after being convicted of assault and battery by a mob. He was suspected of having ties to Mara Salvatrucha, the deadly street gang also known as MS-13.

The truck driver, James Matthew Bradley Jr., has been charged with smuggling immigrants for financial gain resulting in death after the vehicle became dangerously overheated, killing 10 people and injuring 29 others in one of the worst cross-border smuggling disasters in recent history.

In addition to Fuentes, Andrino said, two Guatemalans were taken from the truck for medical treatment: a 17-year-old male, who remained hospitalized in stable condition as of Tuesday; and a 23-year-old man, who is a witness and has been released and transferred to some form of protective custody.

“They’re relieved that they survived,” Andrino said. “They didn’t know the risks they were facing.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: daca; dreamers; fairfaxcounty; gangs; humansmuggling; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Both parties have been supporting a policy of non-enforcement of laws and borders for 30 years to turn us into Latin America.

The illegal alien inundation was not accidental.


41 posted on 07/26/2017 8:20:04 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I agree with you.


42 posted on 07/26/2017 8:22:38 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: Wuli
before getting in trouble with the law

Nineteen-year-old Fuentes was deported on March 2, 2017 after being convicted of assault and battery by a mob, and grand larceny by pickpocketing, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was suspected of having gang connections.

Are we supposed to feel sorry for him? I wonder if he received a DACA amnesty. What about his parents and their status?

43 posted on 07/26/2017 8:23:53 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

He was apparently MS-13. His life was lost long before he died in that truck.


44 posted on 07/26/2017 8:25:16 AM PDT by marron
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I suggested the other day that they should use his rancid corpse in public service announcements about the dangers of invading the U.S. like this.


45 posted on 07/26/2017 8:26:33 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: AppyPappy
That means the decision was made under Obama and McAuliffe because deportations take months.

Not necessarily. It depends on when he committed these crimes and when it was know about his gang connections. Sessions has been cracking down on MS-13 and expediting their removal.

McAuliffe has absolutely nothing to do with his deportation.

46 posted on 07/26/2017 8:26:54 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I have no sympathy for this DREAMER criminal. I have to say I hope they get the message with Trump that they are not welcome here. AT ALL.


47 posted on 07/26/2017 8:28:05 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Rusty0604

I thought the same thing, but then I realized that “assault and battery by a mob” is probably the official name of the criminal charges he faced.


48 posted on 07/26/2017 8:28:30 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: marron

So distraught :^(

Where do I send the Mass card?
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Mercans live cuz he’s not here.


49 posted on 07/26/2017 8:29:30 AM PDT by gasport (Smash the Beast - starvation takes too long)
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To: lacrew

#gangbanger’slivesmatter


50 posted on 07/26/2017 8:29:35 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Fresh Wind
A mob convicted him?

The cops found him as a result of a little hunch back at the office:


51 posted on 07/26/2017 8:31:55 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: Phinneous

Somehow I don’t think Donald FAGan would approve of those alternate lyrics, but I do.


52 posted on 07/26/2017 8:36:33 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

No sympathy here. His parents should not have broken the law, and he should not have either.


53 posted on 07/26/2017 8:39:37 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Fresh Wind
Scratch out the a in "a mob."

Virginia Law: "§ 18.2-42. Assault or battery by mob"

54 posted on 07/26/2017 8:39:44 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Lend me a hankie ... My tears are shorting out my keybozzzzt


55 posted on 07/26/2017 8:43:49 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
He was suspected of having ties to Mara Salvatrucha, the deadly street gang also known as MS-13.

They snuck that in there, probably because they had to.

56 posted on 07/26/2017 8:44:50 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
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To: SandyInSeattle
Knowing the lying media, I wouldn't be surprised that they found out “Frank's” body was identified by his MS-13 tattoos - and chose to include the “suspected” line instead of that.
57 posted on 07/26/2017 8:49:41 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Then the illegal should be pissed at his parents, not those Americans they violated.

I guess after WWII, France should have let the Germans stay too.


58 posted on 07/26/2017 8:57:10 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Wonder how many of the estimated 100+ in that truck had been deported before? Chances are good that he wasn’t the only one.


59 posted on 07/26/2017 8:57:52 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Trump promised to get rid of the gangsters. He is keeping that promise.

I wonder how many have been deported already?


60 posted on 07/26/2017 8:59:58 AM PDT by marron
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