The 15-year-old migrant boy was suffering from heat exhaustion and grew agitated with smugglers on his treacherous journey across the US southern border — so they smothered him to death in front of his horrified mother and dumped his body in the West Texas desert.
Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland recalled investigating the June 2022 murder of the teen — one of 42 migrants his office has found the dead in the remote stretch of the US-Mexico border during the Biden-Harris administration.
The gut-wrenching tale isn’t an outlier: According to the Government Accountability Office, 2,700 of migrants have perished crossing into the US under President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who was appointed “border czar” in 2021.
