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June 11, 2018

Honduran Asylum Seeker, Separated from His Wife & Child, Dies by Suicide in Texas Jail
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Back in the United States, media reports have revealed that a Honduran
asylum seeker who was separated from his wife and 3-year-old child after
crossing the border died by suicide in mid-May, after strangling himself
in a jail in Starr County, Texas. A Border Patrol agent told The
Washington Post that Marco Antonio Muņoz "lost it" after agents told him
he'd be separated from his child, and that the agents then "use[d]
physical force to take the child out of his hands." When Muņoz continued
to protest the physical removal of his son, the agency transferred him
to a nearby jail, where a guard found him dead in his cell the following
morning.


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