Jocelyn Rojo Carranza
An 11-year-old girl has taken her own life in Texas after her classmates threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US.
Jocelyn Rojo Carranza was found unresponsive by her mom in their Gainesville, Texas, home on February 3 and passed away five days later on February 8 after spending five days being treated in a Dallas hospital.
She was buried on Wednesday, according to her online obituary.
Carranza’s mother Marbella Carranza told Univision the girl was bullied with deportation threats for weeks by her school peers at Gainesville Intermediate School.
Classmates allegedly harassed the young girl by telling her she would be left alone without her family once they were deported.
“They were going to call immigration so they could take her parents away and she would be left alone,” Carranza told CNN affiliate station KUVN.
Her death comes amid President Donald Trump’s ordering for the “largest deportation operation in American history.”
Agents with ICE and other federal authorities have launched targeted raids on approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants nationwide.
For Jocelyn however, the climate of fear became all too grave.
Trump has announced an expansive directive granting federal authorities the ability to deport up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants with criminal records to a designated detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
