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A grim border drowning underlines peril facing many migrants

(Julia Le Duc | AP) Tania Vanessa Ávalos of El Salvador speaks with Mexican authorities after her husband and nearly 2-year-old daughter were swept away by the current in Matamoros, Mexico, while trying to cross the Rio Grande to Brownsville, Texas, on June 23, 2019. Their bodies, the toddler still tucked into her father's shirt with her arm loosely draped around him, were discovered Monday morning several hundred yards from where they had tried to cross.