One Migrant Suffocated to Death in Texas Truck Was a DACA Recipient, Arrived to US as Toddler

The Washington Post reports with several updates on the migrants deaths in a San Antonio truck, including the fact that one of the deceased individuals was a 19-year old named Frank Fuentes.  Fuentes had originally arrived in the U.S. as a toddler, grew up in Northern Virginia where he graduated from  high school, and received DACA.  His DACA was terminated and he was deported in March after receiving an assault-related conviction.

A former classmate shared that when she “last spoke to Fuentes on Snapchat a month ago, … he confided how much he was struggling in an unfamiliar country. ‘He’s been here forever,’ she said. ‘He doesn’t know what Guatemala was. His home is here, his friends are here, his family is here.'”

-JKoh