Young Illegal Immigrant Family Who Drowned, Ignored Advice Against Border Swim

Young Illegal Immigrant Family Ignored Advice Against Border Swim
Young Illegal Immigrant Family Who Drowned, Ignored Advice Against Border Swim
The Alta Vista neighborhood of San Martin, El Salvador, where migrant Oscar Alberto Martinez and his daughter Valeria used to lived, is seen from the air on June 27, 2019. Salvador Melendez/Photo via AP
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MATAMOROS, Mexico—The young migrant family from El Salvador appeared in this border city over the weekend with fear already on their faces.

They went to the downtown bridge that leads to Brownsville, Texas, where Xiomara Mejia, herself also a migrant from Central America, explained that the newcomers would not be able to add their names to the long list of families waiting to apply for asylum in the United States until Monday.