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The family of undocumented immigrant Idelfonso Martinez Sanchez,who died in the Arizona desert trying to cross into the UnitedStates after being deported, may sue the U.S. Border Patrol becausethey consider that the agents' long delayed search for himcontributed to the tragedy. Martinez Sanchez, 39, had lived in the city of Vista, north of SanDiego, for more than 20 years, and before his fatal attempt toreturn to the United States, he had tried unsuccessfully to reenterfrom Tijuana. One of his companions when detained by the Border Patrol told theagents that they had left Martinez behind in the Arizona desert,but they didn't begin searching for him until five days later. "They could have saved him. They let him die worse than an animal -because we're Mexicans and we have no documents they treat us theworst way," Juana Garcia, widow of the deceased immigrant, told EfeFriday. Garcia is also an undocumented immigrant. The couple has fivechildren between ages five and 19. "We'll see what happens with the lawsuit. What they did is notright. I don't work and they left me and my kids without our sourceof income. What we want is for justice to be done," Garcia said. The funeral service was held Thursday afternoon with the casketclosed, because of the advanced state of decomposition, at theChurch of St. Francis of Assisi in the town of Vista, attended byclose to 350 mourners. The wife said that Martinez Sanchez's body was found on the TohonoO'odham Indian reservation, one of the routes most used byimmigrants crossing the desert without documents and where theyface scorching temperatures above 100 F. According to Garcia, Martinez had gone to buy milk at a store inVista on March 1 when a friend asked him to take charge of thebusiness because he had an emergency. It was then that a cop who had gone to the store to deliver aletter asked Martinez for identification, and when the immigranthanded over his Mexican ID card, the policeman called the BorderPatrol. "The police officier did it out of pure racism, seeing that helooked Mexican. He had previously gone to other stores withoutasking anyone to identify themselves," Juana Garcia said. After being deported, his last attempt to cross through Arizonabegan April 20, when he promised a people smuggler close to $3,000to help him get back into the United States, but after a day oftrudging through the desert he felt ill. One companion on the trip, Isaac Jimenez Hernandez, tried to helphim, but despite his plea the people smuggler refused to stop themarch, so he took a cell phone from Martinez's pocket but had towalk another two hours before he could call 911, according toMartinez's wife. When the Border Patrol arrived, they arrested Jimenez Hernandez,who offered to take them to where Martinez was, but the agentsrefused, and it wasn't until Jimenez Hernandez was freed inMexicali two days later that he could Martinez's family, who inturn called the Border Patrol. Finally, at the insistence of the family and days after Jimenez wasreleased in Mexico, the Border Patrol accepted Jimenez's offer tohelp them find the body, which they did on April 26, when theyfound it in an advanced state of decomposition. EFE. I am an expert from uv-led-lights.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China Infrared Emitter Led , Led Street Light Fixture, Led Diode Resistor,and more.
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