One of the Tractor-Trailer Victims Grew Up in Virginia

At least one of the 10 people who died while crammed into a tractor-trailer outside a Texas Walmart grew up in America and was making the dangerous journey to be reunited with his relatives. 

Frank Fuentes, 20, was brought to the US as a toddler and graduated from JEB Stuart High School in Fairfax, Va., in 2015, BuzzFeed reports. 

Guatemalan officials say Fuentes was a "DREAMer" who joined the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but was deported to Guatemala in March of this year because he had a criminal record. He was convicted of assault and battery by a mob and was suspected of having ties to the MS-13 gang, reports the Washington Post.

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