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Heartbreaking images reveal the tragedy of the migrant crisis after a Salvadoran man and his 23-month-old daughter drowned in the Rio Grande while the child's mother watched on.

Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, 25, and his daughter Valeria were found face down in shallow water on the Mexico side of the river across from Brownsville, Texas on Monday morning.

Photos from the scene show his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl's head tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments.

Martínez's 21-year-old wife Tania Vanessa Ávalos said she was present and looked on in horror as the tragedy unfolded, when Ramírez tried to cross the border illegally by swimming across the river near Matamoros, Mexico.

Ávalos said the family left El Salvador on April 3 and that they spent the last two months in Mexico at a migrant camp waiting for an appointment to apply for asylum to enter the U.S.

A Tamaulipas government official said the family arrived in Matamoros early Sunday and went to the U.S. Consulate to try to get a date to request asylum.

It's not clear what happened to the family at the U.S. Consulate, but a shelter director said only about 40 to 45 asylum interviews were being conducted in Matamoros each week, while somewhere in the neighborhood of 800-1,700 names were on a waiting list.

Frustrated by the wait, Ramírez tried to swim across the river with his daughter on Sunday afternoon.

Once across, he set her on the U.S. bank of the river and started back for his wife, but the little girl panicked as he left and jumped into the river to follow him, Ávalos said.

Martínez returned and was able to grab Valeria, but the current swept them both away, according to remarks Ávalos gave to police at the scene.

Ramirez had contacted his sister, Wendy, via Facebook on Sunday afternoon and informed her of his decision to cross the river.
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Trump declares a "humanitarian and security crisis" on the boarder in JANUARY!!!!

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi
“manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration."

AOC:
"'crisis' that doesn't exist."

Elizabeth Warren:
"A fake crisis at the border is fear-mongering of the worst kind—and we’re not falling for it. I voted to terminate the president’s ridiculous “national emergency.”

CNN's Jim Acosta:
“No sign of the national emergency that the president has been talking about… pretty tranquil down here,”

CNN's Kristen Powers:
“the entire thing is something that's been manufactured to basically gin up support for a wall”

But now all of a sudden it's a crisis because there is a front page photo.
 
Yeah, look it sucked you fucking drowned and took your kid with you. But.. maybe, just maybe you should have went through the proper channels.... Then you and your daughter would still be fucking alive.

Again, no problem with immigration, come on in, but I do have a problem with someone skipping the process. Not losing any tears or sleep over this
 
He tried to take his wife and daughter across separately and had taken the little girl first. She tried to get back to him; probably thought he was leaving her.

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Tamaulipas immigration and civil defense officials have toured shelters beginning weeks ago to warn against attempting to cross the river, said to be swollen with water released from dams for irrigation. On the surface, the Rio Grande appears placid, but strong currents run beneath.

Ramírez said her son and his family left El Salvador on April 3 and spent about two months at a shelter in Tapachula, near Mexico’s border with Guatemala.

“I begged them not to go, but he wanted to scrape together money to build a home,” Ramírez said. “They hoped to be there a few years and save up for the house.”

El Salvador’s foreign ministry said it was working to assist the family, including Ávalos, who was at a border migrant shelter following the drownings. The bodies were expected to be flown to El Salvador on Thursday.
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