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Greenport teen: Life in the shadows to a tragic death

On his 11th day of walking through the desert to cross the Mexican border and reach the United States, Eber Lopez said he thought he was going to die.

As U.S. immigration authorities hovered overhead in a helicopter when he had reached Arizona, the Guatemalan teenager was dizzy from exhaustion and dehydration. He told his uncle, David Lopez, they should just give up.

But Lopez says...

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