Heat kills teen migrant farmworker

On May 14, the official temperature was 95 degrees; it was even hotter inside the wine grape vineyard owned by West Coast Grape Farming, east of Stockton, where Maria had been working for nine hours.

At 3:40 p.m. Maria became dizzy. She didn't know where she was. There was no water for the workers from 6 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. When water arrived, it was a 10-minute walk from where Maria was working, too far to access. There was no shade or training for foremen and workers about what to do if someone became ill from the heat—as required by law.

After many delays she was finally taken to a hospital where doctors said her temperature upon arrival was 108.4 degrees, far beyond what the human body can take.

Maria's heart stopped six times in the next two days before she passed away on Friday.

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[tuberpie68]

Do you have no restraint or decency at all, in your aggression against Mexican people? Apparently, to you, not even dead Mexicans are good Mexicans. Why haven't you been jailed yet? For those who do not know what I'm talking about, go to his channel, where , believe it or not, he video documents his own harassing, threatening, & attempting to incite to violence male Mexican youth(or as he likes to call them, gang members, tough guys & clowns)to violent.

[gduran1x]

Why isnt Lou Dobs reporting this

[YasmineParish]

This is horible

[girlletty23]

@therockkkkher well then if ur a guy you dont have buevos pa decir la verdad how ur saying

[therockkkkher]

@girlletty23 sorry but you are nowhere in the realm of true intelligence , what i said stands until someone MUCH more intelligent than a rock can try to impress me !!! JUST TRUTH, get over it !!!, and if your a female i dont discuss important matters with females, just wont, sorry !!!

[girlletty23]

@therockkkkher Listen you wouldn'tt know shit if it was on your face. You wouldn't be how you are because of these people you know. Tomatoes lettuce and meat in your hamburgur wouldn't be there because of them. MY PEOLE come here to find a better place for their KIDS. Not because they want to. Look at yourself and think how you would feel if you came from mexico and nobody appreceiated your hard work Think of the things people do for you because of LAZYNESS . not saying ur lazy BUT THINK. kay

[therockkkkher]

SHOULDNT HAVE BEEN HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND YOU CARRY YOUR OWN WATER, if you dont know to get some water for your own kids then you fail at life and should HAVE NEVER HAD KIDS, and especially if your poor anyways, these fools are so crazy they have kids just to torture them with poverty, ITS CHILD ABUSE, STOP HAVING CHILDREN WHEN YOU KNOW DAMN WELL YOU WOULDNT WANT TO BE BORN INTO A LIFE LIKE THAT !!! HAVE SOME DAMN COMMON SENSE FOR ONCE !!!

[hEtTiSuM]

This is so sad.

[jmarron2525]

What up ese you still uses other peoples videos and claiming them as your own original work bitch?

[AZTLANBUSTERS]

I got ICE to shut down that farm a week later.

[tuberpie68]

Because he's Lou Dobbs