Mexican man commits suicide minutes after deportation from the United States

[DonViejo]

Source: International Business Times



22 FEB 2017 AT 16:08 ET

About a half an hour after being deported from the United States, a Mexican man jumped to his death off of a bridge, according to local reports Tuesday.

The man, 45-year-old Guadalupe Olivas Valencia, was found unconscious next to plastic bag containing his belongings, reported the BBC. He died soon after in the hospital from a heart attack and concussion sustained after hitting the ground. The apparent suicide took place by the El Chaparral border station that connects Tijuana with San Diego.

Valencia had been deported three times and was reportedly spotted by witnesses yelling that he did not want to return to Mexico. According to a friend who spoke with Agence France-Presse, Valencia appeared anxious about being sent to a city where "he knew nobody," reported the Independent. The British newspaper reported that documents found on Valencia's possession after his death revealed he was from the Mexican state of Sinaloa, in the country's Northwest.

Valencia's death comes amid a crackdown on undocumented immigration from President Donald Trump's administration. Some 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the U.S.



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[unblock]

2. are you fucking kidding me?

i hope you meant to put a sarcasm thingy on that post.

this is all on donnie and his brownshirts.


if mexico created the world's finest welcome program for deportees, donnie and his brownshirts would deport people as far away from it as humanly possible and not even tell them about it.

[CountAllVotes]

4. Yeah, blame the other guy

Let's this B.S. tRump and his Nazis, YES NAZIS, off the hook is how too many think.

I'd go so far as to call this MURDER, how about you?

There are so many sickos out there that think this is Mexico's fault.

We created this problem and the consequences fall upon us I agree!

May he RIP!

[Charles Bukowski]

3. Blame everyone but the industries that lure indocumented workers.

Got it.

[Warpy]

13. You get the gold star

People are being actively recruited all over Central America, promised good jobs that pay what they can only dream about down thee. Yes, $7.25/hour translates into a fat paycheck in the local currency at the current exchange rate. So they sell everything they can sell and use the money to get a guide to get them across the border, and go to a prearranged pick up spot where vans and even semis will collect them for transport to an employer looking for cheap, docile labor. It's organized crime and big business.

And that doesn't even address the hell hole working conditions, worse living conditions, and slow starvation that "fat paycheck" will allow them to buy here.

The people who are conned into coming here aren't the problem. It's the fat cats doing the conning.

[JenniferJuniper]

5. I think you need to know and learn this song

Deportee
Woody Guthrie

The crops are all in
And the peaches are rotting
The oranges piled up
In their creosote dumps
You're flying 'em back
To the Mexican border
To spend all their money
To wade back again
Good bye to my Juan
Goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name
When you ride the big airplane
All they will call you
Will be "deportees"
Some of us are illegal
And others not wanted
Our work contract's up
And we have to move on
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border
They chase us like outlaws
Like rustlers, like thieves
Good bye to my Juan
Goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name
When you ride the big airplane
All they will call you
Will be "deportees"
The skyplane caught fire
Over Los Gatos Canyon
A fireball of lightning
Shook all our hills
Who are all these friends
Who are scattered like dried leaves
The radio said
They were just "deportees"
Goodbye to my Juan
Goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name
When you ride the big airplane
All they will call you
Will be "deportees"

[CountAllVotes]

6. +1,000,000

Thank you for posting the lyrics to Woody Guthrie's song!

[Docreed2003]

10. This should be reposted far and wide!

[iluvtennis]

7. This is result of Trump's spiteful/hurtful policies -no reason to deport anyone other than criminals

[defacto7]

8. Another source of pain and desparation

caused by a greed controlled US. It's on the heads of those who voted for the nut in the WH and the GOP nuts in the federal and state governments.

[moonscape]

9. Wonder why he had been deported 3x? Hope someone writes the

back story on this.

It's impossible to imagine all the people T wants to plop in the middle of nowhere when it comes to loved ones, contacts, home, familiarity. It's a cruelty I cannot believe our country is going to engage in on such a massive scale now.

In addition to being cruel, the effect on our economy is going to be devastating as we lose workers, and Mexico begins to exact its trading revenge.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. "It's a cruelty I cannot believe our country is going to engage in"

This same country "engaged in" the brutal and barbaric act of enslaving people (where rape, assault, separating and selling family members to other slave-holders, maiming, and murder were part and parcel of their great economic achievement of free labor - including doing such to my own ancestors). So deportation is not the most egregious of what the U.S. is capable of doing.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. If an American citizen

were detained without papers - license, passport - on the beach or
on the way to the store ...

Wonder how they'd fare?

[Warpy]

16. Tribal people I know here, who'd been here for thousands of years

before the Spaniards arrived, talk about being harassed at the border when they're come back after a night misspent in Juarez bars.

Back in Boston, the largest group of illegal immigrants were Irish. Second largest were Portuguese speakers from Cape Verde, Brazil, Portugal, or the Azores. It seems that palefaces never got harassed, as long as they stayed off the books and out of prison.

[IronLionZion]

17. I want to detain rural hicks

and challenge them to provide any documentation proving they belong here other than white skin. Except I don't really blame them because many don't know any better. Many don't have documentation, not even birth certificates.

My enemies are educated racists who know better and live in the city or nice suburbs and cannot stand the thought of people like me being born in this country every day. They depend on white privilege. It's a white entitlement that they think someone is "stealing" their good jobs. They don't want competition for educated skilled work and it kills them to see someone like me even applying for these jobs. They know Republican politicians will never do anything about H1-B visas, so they pick on the poor farm workers and housekeepers instead.

Someone I dated 2 times was bragging to me about how easy it was for her to stumble home drunk from Tijuana back to San Diego when she couldn't even answer where she lived or which country she was from. She bragged that she was let back in because of her blonde hair and pale easily burned skin. I didn't date her again after that. I was so disgusted because I still get blocked out from many defense consulting projects because someone refuses to believe my passport and birth certificate. Same with a corporate lawyer I dated once who proudly stated that as a white woman if anyone even thought about mugging her in DC, they would be swarmed by several police cars and roughed up. I didn't see her again either although she seemed nice otherwise.

I want to round up stupid people in the suburbs, just pull over everyone with a Trump sticker and challenge them to produce papers. An American accent and driver's license isn't enough.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. In the 1970s

these white beings of privilege and power, the Establishment in a way,
Silent Majority, the Forgotten Man of Goldwater and Sumner, were often
referred to as WASP - White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. You don't hear
that term hardly at all anymore. These pockets of privilege still exist -
in geographic areas, towns, companies, occupations perhaps. People
with ethnic sounding names, even eastern or southern Europeans, know
how difficult it is to break the barrier. Many have changed their names -
look at the history of Hollywood stage names.

[tirebiter]

12. Why 3 times. Simple answer-because he kept coming back.

About 30 years ago I was down in Guadalajara and I was approached by a guy who asked me to help him write a letter in English to the ILWU. He wanted to explain that he wasn't going to be available for awhile due to family issues but did not want to lose seniority. He explained to me that he only went north to get seed money to buy a cement truck in Mexico and run a business there. Once that was done he planned to stay in Mexico. It's not like it was easy to cross the border. It wasn't something he preferred. He never took his family north.

[treestar]

15. How long had he been in the US?

Also by city where he knew nobody, was that the border city - or did he no longer know people in his hometown because he had been in the US so long.

[MrScorpio]

19. I'm afraid that this won't be the only tragedy like this. nt

[Kimchijeon]

20. I am really saddened to hear this :(