1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

I am writing to express my outrage over the tragic death of 11-year-old Jocelyn Rojo Carranza, who took her own life after relentless bullying over her family’s immigration status. Her death is not just a heartbreaking loss—it is a direct consequence of the toxic, hateful environment fostered by Donald Trump and the Texas officials who echo his rhetoric. Trump has spent years demonizing immigrants, calling them criminals, rapists, and invaders. He separated children from their parents, locked them in cages, and tried to strip Dreamers of their protections. He encouraged the kind of dehumanization that emboldens schoolyard bullies to torment a child until she saw no escape but death. And what have Texas leaders done? Instead of protecting the vulnerable, they have doubled down on cruelty—passing laws to target immigrants, fearmongering about border communities, and treating human beings as political pawns. They have turned Texas into a breeding ground for xenophobia, where children like Jocelyn suffer the consequences of their reckless words and policies. Jocelyn’s blood is on your hands. Every Texas official who has stood by Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, every leader who has used fear and division for political gain, must reckon with this reality. How many more children must die before you end your assault on immigrant families? If you have any shred of humanity left, you will denounce the hateful rhetoric that led to this tragedy and take real action to protect immigrant communities. Anything less makes you complicit in the suffering and deaths of innocent children.