Maria Isabel's Farewell

Vida En El Valle , News Report, Jennie Rodriguez, Posted: Jun 05, 2008 Editor's Note: A service was held this week for 17-year-old farm worker Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, whose death was the first ...

[Theresa]

Sad for her and the baby.

[Fifth Generation]

Prayers for the young woman, for her unborn child, and for her extended family.

[Cato]

Something in Mexico needs to change. You know you've hit rock bottom when millions of your children are living in another country illegally and dying from heat exhaustion while trying pursue a better life for themselves.

[sean1030]

She was undocumented. What is so sad? Had she stayed where she belonged, this would not have happened.

[Cato]

sean1030 wrote:

She was undocumented. What is so sad? Had she stayed where she belonged, this would not have happened.

Well, it is a sad story, but I do agree that she would have been better off living with her family in Mexico. If my brother in law told me he was planning to pack up his family and move to Canada or Mexico illegally, then I would advise him against it. It's really nothing inconsistent or racial, but simply a bad idea.

[CASE_CORE]

She shouldn't have been here in the first place. What is so sad about someone being so stupid that they don't drink water. She was just a typical ignorant, young and pregnant, dirty immigrant.