By age 5, Jean Carlos “Jeremías” Martinez Rivero, a migrant child who died after falling ill at a Chicago shelter, had seen so much.
“Jeremías,” as he was called, trekked through at least seven countries with his family from tropical Venezuela, where he grew up, to the United States and eventually Chicago. He faced that arduous journey with bright smiles for his parents and a tight hold on his baby brother, Isaías.
