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  11-year-old took her own life after classmates threatened to call ICE on her family, devastated mother reveals
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Last EditedE Pluribus Unum  Feb 19, 2025 10:34pm
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News DateWednesday, February 19, 2025 06:05:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionAn 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.

For Jocelyn however, the climate of fear became all too grave.

Classmates allegedly harassed the young girl by telling her she would be left alone without her family once they were deported.

But the alleged abuse spiraled, and despite reportedly informing school officials on numerous occasions, no action was taken to stop it.

When asked to comment on this story, the Gainesville Independent School District did not acknowledge Carranza’s death but rather issued a statement pointing to its strict anti-bullying code.
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RSF:11714KeystonePopulist ( -7.6004 points)
Thu, February 20, 2025 06:39:02 PM UTC0:00
This is terrible. The consequences of rhetoric, like Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric. My heart goes out to the family 💗