WAS crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico with other migrants. He was only nine years old and, with his mother and youngest brother, he was on the path of hope to conquer the American dream. But she did not make it: the dangerous Rio Grande proved fatal for the child, the first minor to die trying to cross the border between the United States and Mexico since the new wave of migrants began.
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The rescue of the authorities for the little girl, declared dead in hospital after being found unconscious on an island in the river that separates the United States from Mexico, was useless. The medical staff managed to save the mother, of Guatemalan nationality, and the three-year-old brother, of Mexican nationality like his sister: they were reanimated directly on the island in the Rio Grande and then transported to the hospital for subsequent checks. The causes of the child’s death have not been disclosed by the Border Patrol, but the authorities believe that the most likely hypothesis is that of drowning, as has already happened over the years on the same route.
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In fact, desperation pushes migrants to take even the most arduous roads, from the Rio Grande to the ocean, where a Cuban man died in recent days while trying to reach the United States by swimming between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego.
For Joe Biden’s America, the death of the child is a new tragedy that confirms the increasingly serious emergency on the southern border, where thousands of migrants now arrive every day. These are mainly unaccompanied children who, according to the law in force, cannot be repatriated. At the moment there are 18,000 in the custody of the American authorities, housed in emergency centers, including military bases. And the arrivals will continue in the coming months: in April between 18,600 and 22,000 children are expected, in May between 21,800 and 25,000.
US-Mexico, the photo of the drowned Cuban showing the plight of migrants
by Daniele Mastrogiacomo
A leap that risks putting further pressure on an already collapsing hospitality system and which represents a challenge that is not easy to solve for Kamala Harris. The vice president was invested by Biden with the responsibility of managing the migrant emergency, ridden by Republicans and former President Donald Trump to attack liberals guilty, in their view, of pursuing an ‘open borders’ policy. For Harris, therefore, a very slippery ground on which to move and which could weigh on his aspirations for the White House. For the former president, expected in the coming days at the border, instead an opportunity to return to the limelight with the workhorse that gave him the victory in the 2016 elections: the wall with Mexico.