11-Year-Old Takes Own Life After Classmates Reportedly Threatened To Have Her Family Deported

An 11-year-old girl in Texas took her own life after she was allegedly harassed by classmates who threatened to call the authorities and have her family deported.

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza was a sixth-grade student at Gainesville Intermediate School. Her mother, Marbella Carranza, told Univision that her daughter endured bullying from classmates who taunted her and threatened to notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Jocelynn reportedly informed school officials on multiple occasions, but her mother says no action was taken.

Jocelynn was rushed to a hospital in Dallas on Feb. 3 and died on Feb. 8.

Classmates allegedly told Jocelynn that she would be all alone in the U.S. once her family was deported. The harassment became so aggressive, the 11-year-old was seeing a school counselor more than once a week.

“I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately nothing could be done,” Marbella told Univision. “My daughter will always live for me, and I will always love her.”

The sixth-grader’s death comes amid an aggressive push by the Trump administration to deport people who are in the United States illegally. On Tuesday, the White House posted a video of migrants being shackled and being boarded onto a plane bound for an unknown destination. Accompanying the video were the words, “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight.” ASMR stands for autonomous sensory meridian response, which refers to a sensation one feels when viewing stimulating content.