Yazmin Juárez's daughter Mariee died when she was 19 months old last year, just six weeks after being released from migrant detention near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Images of overcrowded and filthy border facilities have brought heightened scrutiny from the public and lawmakers on the living conditions, and both lawmakers and historians have compared them to"Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, the ranking Republican on the subcommittee, blamed Democrats for the surge of migrants at the border."The blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to actually address this," Roy said.
Juárez said she feared for their lives in Guatemala and wanted a better future for her daughter."Instead, I watched my baby girl die slowly and painfully just a few months before her second birthday," she said. Mariee passed away on what is Mother’s Day in her country, Juárez tearfully recalled."When I walked out of the hospital that day, all I had with me was a piece of paper with Mariee's hand prints in pink paint that the staff had created for me.
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