When authorities found an 11-year-old Guatemalan boy's body just about a mile from Texas' southern border, they also discovered his brother's Chicago phone number scribbled on the inside of his belt buckle. The boy, wearing Angry Birds jeans, black leather boots and a white rosary around his neck, had apparently gotten lost on his way north from his native country and was found earlier this month, alone in the brush less than a mile from the nearest U.S. home, a South Texas sheriff said Monday. While hundreds of immigrants die crossing the border each year, the discovery of Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez's decomposed body in the Rio Grande Valley earlier this month highlights the perils unaccompanied children face as the U.S. government searches for ways to deal with record numbers of children crossing into the country illegally.
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Boy identified at Gilberto Francisco Ramo Jaurez, who was found June 15 less than a mile from the border
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Ramo Jaurez is a native of Guatemala
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Authorities used the number in his belt to help ID his remains, which authorities believe had been in the desert for up to two weeks
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The boy's Family says he was being led into the U.S. by a coyote
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The last time his family heard from him was 25 days before his body was found
The boy's brother gave authorities his father's phone number in @placeholder, and the dad identified the boy's personal items.