Tragedy comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s a terrible thing when children feel so overwhelmed by life that they seek to end their lives, but that is exactly what happened to one 11-year-old girl in Texas. She was an Hispanic gal and bullied by classmates who threatened to call ICE on her family. She was told that “she would be all alone” when ICE took her parents away and deported them. What a cruel and vicious thing to say. And the only thing more cruel and vicious is that there is an element of truth to it all. I find myself wondering if Trump or Stephen Miller or Tom Homan or Kristi Noem will even find out about this case — or if they’ll give a good goddamn when and if they do hear about it.
An 11-year-old girl took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.
Jocelynn Rojo Carranza passed away on February 8 after spending five days being treated in a Dallas hospital. This came after she was taunted with deportation threats for weeks by sixth-grade classmates at Gainesville Intermediate School, around 70 miles north of Dallas, her mother Marbella Carranza told Univision.
Her death comes amid president Donald Trump’s ordering for the “largest deportation operation in American history,” prompting agents with ICE and other federal authorities to launch targeted raids on approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants nationwide.
They not only order these raids and televise them as reality TV, with talk show hosts like Dr. Phil riding along, they glorify the misery of these people. You well recall the dust up with Panama when Trump insisted on putting deportees in shackles and military planes, for maximum spectacle. That’s what this poor young girl was seeing in her mind, her parents in shackles.
America never used to be this way. We have a low life bully in the White House and young bullies in this school, who collectively drove a blameless youngster to take her own life. I weep for this poor girl. There’s so much joy in life she didn’t get to experience. I had much personal tragedy in my own family as a youngster but there was never a United States president that created such a horror show that I felt that I would be better off dead, rather than attempt to live in the world this *president* was striving to create, one where I was officially an outcast and unwanted.
I hope that some enterprising reporter asks Kristi Noem or Tom Homan about this. I would really like to hear what they have to say. I want to hear their justification for literally scaring a child to death, creating circumstances which drove her to take her own life. This is simply beyond belief that this is happening in the United States of America.
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