Immigrant confirms that the Venezuelan girl found dead at the border is his daughter
An immigrant crosses the Rio Grande from Chihuahua to El Paso.
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For: EFE Updated 19 Jan 2022, 30: 14 pm EST
A Venezuelan immigrant woman confirmed that the body of a foreign girl
found by Mexican authorities on the banks of the Rio Grande border is that of his daughter , who died in an attempt to cross the border into the United States, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported Wednesday.
The agency indicated in a statement that Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Station (Texas) were notified that a minor had gone missing while trying to cross the river on 18 from January. A woman informed the agents that her daughter was swept away by the current.
Agents assigned to the Riverside Patrol Unit were deployed in the area when the incident occurred, in an effort to locate the minor. Border Patrol also contacted Mexican authorities.
The body of a girl matching the description of the mother was found by Mexican authorities along the riverbank on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
#BREAKING A 7 year old Venezuelan girl drowned in the Rio Grande as she was attempting to cross into Del Rio with her mother—Val Verde Co. Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez tells me the mother lost her grip, the child was swept away. @INAMI_mx recovered her body on the Mexico side.
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) January 18, 2022
The mother, a citizen of Venezuela, was notified and confirmed that it was her seven-year-old daughter, also Venezuelan. “The mother was taken into custody by Border Patrol agents and processed according to CBP guidelines,” the statement concluded.
The Institute The National Migration Office (INM) of Mexico reported on Tuesday that the body of a foreign minor had been recovered in the Rio Grande , which divides Mexico and the United States.
The minor tried to cross the river to the United States through the Mexican municipality of Ciudad Acuña, in the state of Coahuila (north).
The region is experiencing a record migratory flow to United States, where the Border Patrol detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in the fiscal year 2021, which ended on 30 September.
Meanwhile, Mexico intercepted more than 252, migrants undocumented immigrants from January to November and deported more than 100,000 in the same period, according to the Migration Policy Unit of the country’s Ministry of the Interior.
The Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid received a record of 252.488 refugee applications in 2021.
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