Suicides of two Latina children erode immigrant parents’ sense of safety
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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, 11, and Gabriela Aparicio Ortega, 13, died after being bullied about their immigrant parents’ alleged statuses

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, 11, of Texas and Gabriela Aparicio Ortega, 13, of North Carolina died by suicide in February after being bullied about their parents’ alleged immigration statuses

  • Drusas@fedia.io
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    9 months ago

    The 11-year-old was a student at Gainesville Intermediate School, where classmates threatened to call immigration “so they could take her parents away and she would be left alone,” Carranza told CNN. An investigation by the school district found that this was not an isolated incident.

    I’m going to go ahead and say that’s beyond “bullying”.