A mother says she watched her daughter and husband drown at the Mexican border:
Central American immigrants enter Texas after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico in February 2019, seeking political asylum. captured Monday, the drowned bodies of a man and his young daughter lie facedown in muddy waters, with the girl’s right arm draped over her father’s shoulders — a tragic reminder of the dangerous journey migrants take to come to America.
The father and daughter from El Salvador drowned Sunday in the Rio Grande after they crossed from Mexico into Texas near Brownsville. After making it to Texas, Martinez had turned around to get his wife; when his daughter saw him swimming away, she jumped in after him, CNN reports, citing the photographer who captured the image, Julia Le Duc.
The two bodies were found Monday on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, near Matamoros, across the river from Brownsville, CNN reports. The family had most recently been in a migrant camp in Matamoros, hoping for an appointment to receive political asylum in the U.S., according to La Jornada.
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