DACA Beneficiary Died Trying to Rescue People in Houston; Mother Denied Entry to U. S. to Grieve

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It is not impossible to put a face on young men and women who were being protected by DACA, the program President Obama initiated to protect children who came to the United States as unintentional illegal immigrants. Here is the story of a hero, a hero who will escape the  notice of Cruel Trumpie and his Witch-in-Residence, Kellyanne.

Nearly four days after Harvey's record flooding slammed a rescue boat into an Interstate 45 frontage road bridge, family members of the final, missing volunteer pulled his body from Cypress Creek in Spring.

Alonso Guillen, a 31-year-old disc jockey from Lufkin, disappeared on Wednesday around midnight along with two friends after their boat hit the bridge over the creek and capsized. One of them was rescued after clinging to a tree in the rushing water, but days later, after the rains let up and the creek level receded, Guillen and Tomas Carreon Jr. were still missing.

Why was he out? Oh.

Guillen's father, Jesus Guillen, said he'd asked his son not to try and rescue people in the storm, but he insisted, saying he wanted to help people. He cried and prayed on Sunday afternoon as they pulled his son's body from the water.

"Thank you, God," he said, "for the time I had with him."

Why was this man, a criminal in the eyes of Trump and Sessions and others of their ilk even in the United States?

Alonso Guillen was a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which temporarily lifted the threat of deportation for immigrants brought to the U.S. before they were 16, family members said.

His father is a lawful permanent, but his mother is still in the application process for legal status.

Reached at her home in Piedras Negras, Mexico, across the border from Eagle Pass, Rita Ruiz de Guillen, 62, said she is heartbroken.

And here is how the Trump folks, aided by Kellyanne who says his mean policy to revoke DACA is good treatment for  the heroe's family.

She said she hoped U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials would take pity and grant her a humanitarian visa so that she could come to Houston and bury her son, but she was turned back at the border.

Eventually history will reckon with Trump and his enablers like Kellyanne. Until then we have the memory of a hero to feel good about.

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