He crossed the border for a better life. He returned to Mexico in a casket

Huajúmbaro de Guadalupe, Mexico – The cortege led to the hill road, passed well -furnished houses, and a contrast on the rock -bubble lane.

This community in the state of Michoacán Middle Mexico, many of which is a vivid sewing corn, plum, peach and sworn slopes, cut symmetrical rows – now the emerald green is home to about 1,500 people who gave the award of the latest rains.

However, along the Rocky road, Durak Brick and Boncret Houses are the heritage of an generation of immigrants-such as Jaime Alanis García, who are in trouble in the fields, factories and other workplaces of Kalifornia, to their villages to build houses and other projects.

Among the studies financed by immigrant transfer, there is a Guadalupe Lady Chapel with a funeral mass for Alanis García on Saturday.

The first known death of the Trump administration’s job field enforcement raids, in this case, a pair of sweeping the Glass House Farms Cannabis facilities in California on July 10th.

56 -year -old Alanis García fled from immigrant agents at the Glass House field in Camarillo, while 30 meters from a greenhouse fell deadly when he fell 30 meters from a greenhouse. Mexican consular officials arranged the return of his body from California.

Rosa María Zamora, born in Huajúmbaro de Guadalupe, who visited her home in Houston, was like many of us, a hardworking person who went to California to earn his life. ” “California represented an opportunity for us the chance to improve our horizons.”

A quarterly century ago, Zamora said he left to join her husband, a field worker in California. The couple later found employment in the slaughterhouses in Nebraska, where a serious leg injury from a cutting knife.

“Señor Jaime is very sad to return like this,” Zamora said.

Alanis was between the age of 200, who accompanied García.

Alanis García’s brother -in -law Manuel Durán said, “How many people are here today,” he said. Here he traveled with other relatives of Oxnard, where Alanis García lived. “He was loved.”

Durán wore a T -shirt decorated with the stylized angel wings rising from a photo of Alanis García. Read the text in “loving memory”.

Behind the shirt, he took part in English and Spanish #justiceforjaime hashtag, and reflected the claim that his relatives were recklessly. 32 -year -old daughter Janet Alanis, “Please want justice,” he said. “Tell everyone the only thing we want is justice.”

The US Department of Homeland Security defended the raid that the authorities said that 300 people had resulted in more arrest. Autopsy, according to an autopsy, the head and neck injuries are exposed to Alanis García, they say they call medical aid.

Huajúmbaro de Guadalupe residents come together for the funeral of Jaime Alanis García, whom many have not seen since his youth.

(For Juan Jose Estrada Serafin / The Times)

Alanis Garcia abandoned Huajúmbaro de Guadalupe as a young man, but according to relatives and acquaintances, it was always based on their earnings as a farm worker for his wife and daughter. He last visited his hometown 17 years ago. QuinceañeraOr 15. The birthday celebration, the inhabitants said.

Since Alanis García first moved to California as a undocumented worker, such long -term distinctions have become increasingly and more norms. The fact that the US-Mexico border, which once included minimal fencing and policing, has now been heavily militarized. For many immigrants without document, this has once eliminated versatile trips to visit their loved ones in Mexico.

The ongoing US migration raids returned to the immigrant communities in Mexico and created deep concerns.

“My husband lives in Oxnard, but thank God he didn’t work where the repression was,” 47 -year -old Margarita Cruz said, he was three years old. “My husband tells me that the situation is very difficult. He is very afraid that people can be arrested.”

Cruz said that her husband left for California 15 years ago. He last visited four years ago.

Cruz, “Here our husbands and sons sent back from the United States, we survive thanks to the money,” he said. “Now, everyone is worried that they will deport our relatives. What are we going to do? There is no job here. Look at Señor Jaime.”

In some respects, for a long time, things have worsening in many rural areas of Mexico, which has been sending immigrants to the north. Mexican shadow most of the state of Michoacán, where the dramatic rise of organized crime, rival gangs fighting for drug smuggling, extortion and other rackets.

On Friday, shortly after the expected arrival of Alanis García’s body from California, a state police officer who accompanied the remains was clearly uneasy. He was worried about leaving – and warned his journalists to beat his journalists out of the city.

“Don’t get caught here after dark,” he said, a tense police who branded an attack rifle while scanning the surroundings. “Here, very dangerous. Two groups are fighting for control.”

Community members offer their latest farewells to Jaime Alanis García in his hometown in Michoacán in Mexico.

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However, relatives were peaceful on Saturday because the coffin was surrounded by candles to the body of Alanis García. Detailed flower arrangements decorated the rows and walls. A 12 -piece band rice, wooden wind and percussion instruments provided a musical ground on the church veranda. The musicians wore white, floral patterned jackets and black shirts while playing funeral melodies.

After the mass, men from the town shoulder shoulder from the hill to the cemetery of wooden coffin. The group continued to play while the pallet carriers were continuing. Many of the regiment attracted the umbrellas against the sun in the middle of the day.

The coffin with flowers with flowers was opened in a pavilion in the cemetery. A relative Alanis placed a cross on García’s chest. The photo looked down inside the coffin. He approached a man who mourned his mourning for a last look at a man he had not seen since his youth.

The mourning gathered to pray for the rosary. Those who prayed asked the Virgin Mary to pray for the spirit of the separation of the migrants.

The coffin was closed and the men lowered him to the adjacent grave. Lasted Alanis García’s last rest instead of individual roses threw. Men pulled rowing in reddish dirt.

Relatives say that Alanis García always wants to go back to his family, like many immigrants.

“I didn’t want him like this!” Before fainting. Relatives and neighbors removed the loose figure from the crowd.

McDonnell is a Times staff writer and Sánchez is a special correspondent. Special reporter Liliana Nieto Del Río contributed to this report.