Felipe was eight years old — a child from Guatemala, the second to die in U.S. migrant custody under the 2018 “zero tolerance” policy. Detained alongside his father, he fell ill, and what should have been a treatable illness — influenza B — became fatal.

He came seeking safety, a better life, and instead met a system that saw him as less than a child. Felipe became one of many — lives lost quietly, without justice, without pause. His name, now part of a silence that stretches across the border, reminds us of the human cost behind every policy.

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