A migrant father separated from his wife and child at the US-Mexico border had a breakdown at a Texas jail and took his own life

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• A Honduran man reportedly took his own life inside a Texas jail last month, one day after he was separated from his wife and child at the US-Mexico border.
• His death came shortly after the Trump administration began implementing its “zero-tolerance” policy at the border, which criminally prosecutes migrants who cross illegally, and separates them from their children.
• Though the Trump administration has received considerable public backlash over the policy, officials have defended it as necessary to deter illegal immigration.

A distraught migrant father from Honduras who was separated from his wife and three-year-old son by immigration authorities at the US-Mexico border killed himself last month, The Washington Post reported.

Marco Antonio Muñoz, 39, took his own life inside a padded cell at a Texas jail on May 13, one day after he and his family requested asylum at the border and were taken into custody, separately, by Border Patrol agents, according to The Post.

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