Migrants are loaded onto a bus at the Border Patrol headquarters on Hondo Pass, in El Paso, Texas, on April 20, 2019. | Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via APSPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois will provide for Thursday’s funeral and burial for the migrant toddler who died last week on a bus headed to Chicago from Texas, officials said.
Rachel Otwell, spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Human Services, confirmed the girl’s name and said the Illinois Welcoming Center, a partially state-funded program, will cover burial costs for Jismary. The child’s great aunt, Gisela Gonzalez, said the family set out for the United States in May from their home in Colombia, where Jismary was born.Welcoming centers offer comprehensive services for migrants. But Otwell said the family has not requested other help.
“Given the sensitivity of this tragic event, and the way migrancy has been unfortunately politicized, does not believe it is appropriate to share certain details, such as the exact center that has supported the family,” Otwell said. Gisela Gonzalez, who lives in Venezuela, said there was no indication that the child was in distress or needed medical attention before she apparently suffered cardiac arrest on the bus. She said Jismary’s parents faced down the treacherous Darien Gap and crossed five Central American countries and Mexico before turning themselves in at a U.S. immigration checkpoint.
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