Mexican security forces help Tania Vanessa, of El Salvador, search for her husband and daughter after they were swept away by the current while trying to cross the Rio Grande Julia Le Duc/Associated PressThe head of US border protection resigned yesterday as a photograph was published in Mexican media of a father and his 23-month-old daughter lying dead together on the bank of the Rio Grande, which separates the two countries. John Sanders, the acting commissioner for US Customs and Border Protection, left without giving a reason after criticism of the conditions of migrant families detained in Clint, Texas, where children are denied access to basic hygiene products such as nappies and soap. More than 100 migrant children have been returned to the facility just one day after being transferred away. US border officials said there was nowhere else to house them. The father and his daughter, aged 23 months, had drowned JULIA LE DUC/APThe image of the man and little girl, lying face down in the shallows with her…

Source: The Times June 26, 2019 00:27 UTC