Mexican Man Killed After ICE Encounter in Florida Was on Vacation, Officials Say

A Mexican antheral who was struck and killed by a tractor trailer successful Florida aft moving from national migration officers was vacationing successful the U.S. and had a tourer visa, according to a Mexico authoritative and a radical assisting his wife.

Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, 28, died July 14 aft authorities said helium darted crossed a engaged roadworthy successful St. Augustine and into the way of a truck. His decease was the 3rd successful astir a week involving encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, pursuing fatal shootings successful Texas and Maine.

Coronilla Durán traveled from his hometown of San Luis de la Paz, successful the cardinal Mexican authorities of Guanajuato, to Atlanta to sojourn household and friends, according to Isaret Jeffers, laminitis of Colectivo Arbol, a farmworkers advocacy group. He had stayed successful Georgia for 3 weeks earlier traveling to Florida’s eastbound seashore to bask the beaches, Jeffers said Tuesday.

U.S. authorities person not publically identified the man, but a Mexico authoritative confirmed his name. Jeffers said Yezzika Alamilla, the man’s wife, told them helium had been visiting the U.S. connected a tourer visa.

The Department of Homeland Security did not instantly respond to an email seeking remark Tuesday astir whether Coronilla Durán had a valid visa.

Coronilla Durán was 1 of 4 radical successful a conveyance that stopped successful a state presumption parking batch earlier 7 a.m. connected the time helium died. The 4 fled connected ft during an brushwood with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations, with 1 darting crossed a engaged roadworthy into the way of the semi, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

It is unclear what prompted the brushwood and what happened to the vehicle’s different 3 occupants.

The Highway Patrol and DHS person not provided further details, citing the ongoing investigation.

Alamilla called Colectivo Arbol, which provides ineligible proposal and assistance to farmworkers successful Central Florida, the time aft her hubby died, Jeffers said. She was seeking assistance to question from Mexico and repatriate her husband’s remains. The enactment bought her a level summons and enactment her up for 3 days, until Monday, she said. The Mexican consulate has been helping her since.

“His woman said helium was determination connected a tourer visa. She didn’t recognize what was happening,” Jeffers said. “He didn’t travel to work; helium wasn’t working. He was present arsenic a tourist.”

Alamilla “thinks helium was precise afraid, and that’s wherefore helium ran away,” Jeffers said.

According to accusation provided by the widow, Coronilla Durán “had been successful the United States for lone a precise abbreviated clip (and) had a tourer visa,” said Susana Guerra Vallejo, the undersecretary for assistance to migrants and mobility issues for the Mexican authorities of Guanajuato.

She said that Alamilla would beryllium capable to spot the assemblage of her hubby astatine the Florida ceremonial home.

Coronilla Durán’s assemblage volition beryllium transported to Mexico connected a commercialized formation from Orlando, Guerra Vallejo told The Associated Press. He volition beryllium buried successful his hometown of San Luis de la Paz, a farming assemblage successful Guanajuato that is astir 160 miles (260 kilometers) northwest of Mexico City, she said.

Coronilla Durán and Alamilla had 2 children, a 7-month-old miss and a 7-year-old boy, Jeffers said.

Coronilla Durán’s decease was astatine slightest the 10th involving encounters with migration agents since President Donald Trump launched his wide deportation run past year.

The Mexican authorities said it had asked authorities attorneys wide successful the U.S. to reappraisal the deaths of migrants successful ICE custody oregon during raids for imaginable transgression prosecution.

Photo: Patricia Ramos, of Palm Coast, astatine a vigil successful St. Augustine for Coronilla Durán (AP Photo/Kelly Jordan)

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