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For: Real America News Updated 23 May 2022, 04: 000 pm EDT
The migrant tragedy wrote a new page, this time in the Suchiate River, which divides Guatemala and Mexico, César Vladimir, aged 30 and his son Malthus Alexander , of 7, who saw the American dream they were looking for vanish.
The National Institute of Migration (INM) in Mexico reported that both drowned when faced with the force of the water and the torrential rain that was recorded when they were trying to cross into Mexican territory; They advanced a few meters with the mother, when the strong currents of the river separated the minor from the father who was carrying him in her arms.
MEXICAN AUTHORITIES LOCATED THE BODIES OF 2 SALVADORANS : A 7-YEAR-OLD BOY AND HIS FATHER OF 30 WHO WERE DRIVEN BY THE WATERS OF THE SUCHIATE RIVER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CROSS IT EN ROUTE TO THE UNITED STATES. pic.twitter.com/TYWO2BKTgc
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The man went in search of him, but both were taken by the tributary and their bodies located until the next day,
at the height of the El Chical community, municipality of Tuxtla Chico, Chiapas, in the south of the neighboring country, as a result of the coordination of actions between Guatemalan and Mexican authorities, in which The INM, civil protection and state police intervened.
According to witnesses, César and his son were trying to cross the Suchiate River tied to a cable from the town of El Carmen, from Guatemala, to the town of Talismán, on the Mexican side.
The wife and mother of the deceased had to receive care and support at the Tapachula General Hospital, Chiapas, due to emotional crisis.
As part of the humanitarian aid tasks, the The Government of Mexico, through the INM, will give the woman a Visitor’s Card for Humanitarian Reasons.
The Consulate of El Salvador made the arrangements so that today the repatriation of the bodies can be carried out and they can be buried in their place of origin.
The region is experiencing a migratory flow record to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) detected more than 1,550,04 of undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in the fiscal year 2021, which ended on 30 of September.
Meanwhile, Mexico deported more than 60,000 foreigners in 2021, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit of the country’s Ministry of the Interior.
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