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You would think someone would care that so many are willing to die to get here. But, alas.
We now make it so hard for refugees to get in, they drown trying.
History will not look back kindly at this moment.
For months, advocates have been warning that deaths at the border would increase, as migrants are forced to cross in more dangerous areas by US policies that make it harder for those seeking asylum to turn themselves in at ports of entry.
Oscar Alberto Martinez and his daughter, identified by officials from El Salvador as Angie Valeria M., drowned in the currents of the Rio Grande on Sunday as they tried to slip into the United States.
Shocking image illustrates crisis at US-Mexico border - CNN
We now make it so hard for refugees to get in, they drown trying.
History will not look back kindly at this moment.