In 2006 I drove all the way up the US-Mexican border from Brownsville, Texas, where Angie Valeria and Óscar were found, to San Diego. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters demonstrate in front of the US border patrol facility where lawyers reported that detained migrant children were held unbathed and hungry. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesAlarcón and his fellow humanitarians flew over the border with two-litre bottles of water, looking for migrants who were crossing. An Associated Press report earlier this month from a Texas border patrol station described how a guard had handed a few girls, aged between 10 and 15, a two-year-old boy to look after. Play Video 1:21 US border: photo of drowned father and daughter highlights migrants’ peril – video reportThis is a global tragedy.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2019 13:06 UTC