According to this Hispanic single mother, the minor's classmates harassed her because of her Hispanic origin and told her that immigration would reach her parents.
In addition, the investigator of the case told her that the little girl went to counseling between one and two times a week to report what happened.]
The sixth grader’s mother, Marbella Carranza, said other students at Gainesville Intermediate School targeted her over her family’s immigration status.
‘They were going to call immigration so they could take her parents away and she would be left alone,’ Carranza told KUVN, without elaborating on their legal status.
An 11-year-old school girl took her own life after classmates allegedly threatened to tell immigration agents to deport her and her family.
