Bill Text: TX HR2216 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Paying tribute to the lives of the six migrant children who died in federal custody between September 2018 and May 2019.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-27 - Filed [HR2216 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR2216-Introduced.html
86R36817 BPG-D | ||
By: González of El Paso | H.R. No. 2216 |
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WHEREAS, The tragic deaths of six migrant children in federal | ||
custody have brought immeasurable sorrow to their loved ones and to | ||
this nation where they sought refuge; and | ||
WHEREAS, On September 29, 2018, a 10-year-old girl from El | ||
Salvador who had a history of congenital heart defects perished of | ||
fever and respiratory distress; and | ||
WHEREAS, Seven-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin died on December | ||
8, 2018, in El Paso of a bacterial infection; and | ||
WHEREAS, Felipe Alonzo Gómez, age eight, died on Christmas | ||
Eve in El Paso from Influenza B and a bacterial infection; and | ||
WHEREAS, On April 30, 2019, Juan de León Gutiérrez, age 16, | ||
died in El Paso from a brain infection; and | ||
WHEREAS, Two-year-old Wilmer Josué Ramírez Vázquez of | ||
Guatemala died in El Paso on May 14, after being diagnosed with | ||
pneumonia; and | ||
WHEREAS, At the Weslaco Border Patrol Station, 16-year-old | ||
Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vazquez, who was diagnosed with Influenza | ||
A, died on May 20; and | ||
WHEREAS, The United States has long been a beacon of liberty, | ||
justice, and opportunity, and the loss of these six young lives | ||
reminds us that our nation's ideals exert a powerful pull on those | ||
hoping for a better life; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby pay tribute to the memory of the six migrant | ||
children who died in federal custody between September 2018 and May | ||
2019 and extend deepest condolences to all who mourn their passing. |