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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, The tragic deaths of six migrant children in federal |
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custody have brought immeasurable sorrow to their loved ones and to |
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this nation where they sought refuge; and |
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WHEREAS, On September 29, 2018, a 10-year-old girl from El |
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Salvador who had a history of congenital heart defects perished of |
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fever and respiratory distress; and |
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WHEREAS, Seven-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin died on December |
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8, 2018, in El Paso of a bacterial infection; and |
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WHEREAS, Felipe Alonzo Gómez, age eight, died on Christmas |
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Eve in El Paso from Influenza B and a bacterial infection; and |
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WHEREAS, On April 30, 2019, Juan de León Gutiérrez, age 16, |
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died in El Paso from a brain infection; and |
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WHEREAS, Two-year-old Wilmer Josué Ramírez Vázquez of |
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Guatemala died in El Paso on May 14, after being diagnosed with |
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pneumonia; and |
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WHEREAS, At the Weslaco Border Patrol Station, 16-year-old |
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Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vazquez, who was diagnosed with Influenza |
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A, died on May 20; and |
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WHEREAS, The United States has long been a beacon of liberty, |
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justice, and opportunity, and the loss of these six young lives |
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reminds us that our nation's ideals exert a powerful pull on those |
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hoping for a better life; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the memory of the six migrant |
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children who died in federal custody between September 2018 and May |
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2019 and extend deepest condolences to all who mourn their passing. |