Family of Salvadoran migrant dad, child who drowned say he 'loved his daughter so much.'
alongside his 23-month-old daughter while trying to cross into the United States said the man “loved his daughter so much” and was seeking a better life for his family.
The father and daughter lie face down in the water on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Valeria tucked inside her father’s shirt with her tiny arm wrapped around his neck. Ramírez said her son and Valeria’s mother, Tania Vanessa Avalos, left for the U.S. in search of a better life for their daughter after struggling financially in El Salvador.
Estela Avalos, Tania’s mother, said her daughter also almost drowned but a friend was able to rescue her.Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez with his wife Tania Vanessa Avalos and their daughter, Valeria.The family had become frustrated and desperate after waiting two months in Mexico, unable to present themselves to U.S. authorities to request asylum, according to reporting by Julia Le Duc, who photographed the death of the father and daughter, for Mexican newspaper La Jornada.
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