Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria weren’t the only ones.
The Missing Migrants Project has recorded 29 deaths in June on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
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His name was Natividad Quinto Crisostomo.
He is the ninth person to drown in an El Paso-area canal this month. 11 drowned in all of 2018.
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Two of the children were infants. One was a toddler.
It appeared they died from dehydration and heat exposure.
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Two bodies on different days in a canal. Three men in a water tunnel. The body of a man in the Upper Valley.
We don’t know their names.
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Simply put: Many migrants view it as more dangerous to stay home.
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They told us then they were running out of room. bit.ly/2CUCNHF
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"They killed my brother right in front of us. They killed him because he didn’t want to be a gang member." bit.ly/2CVTFOA
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“The fact that I talked to the police about him — that was like a death sentence on me. The guy already wanted to kill me.”
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The journey itself is full of dangers.
This father and daughter endured last year’s border crisis while spending thousands and risking their lives to journey from Honduras to the U.S.
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Back to San Francisco de la Paz in Honduras. bit.ly/2ETV2QZ
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Meanwhile, street violence has made Honduras a global murder capital.
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Smugglers are cheaper to hire if you bring your kid. bit.ly/2ETV2QZ
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+ $10,000 for an adult driven to Houston
+ $7,500 for an adult to reach Houston, with a walking detour
+ $6,000 for a parent & child who get dropped off on the U.S. riverbank, where they immediately seek asylum
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It drastically reduces the cost and hassle of reaching the U.S. interior. bit.ly/2ETV2QZ
So, the smuggler offered to take them on credit, collateralized with land from a relative. bit.ly/2ETV2QZ
The cartel relies on human smuggling to make up for the loss of drug profits.
Migrant smuggling generated billions of dollars of returns worldwide in 2016 — with a majority of that happening in North America. bit.ly/2ETV2QZ
First, they traveled freely through Guatemala to La Técnica, where as many as 300 migrants a day pass through.
It is a one-industry town — and its industry is migration. bit.ly/2ETV2QZ
The next day, they were in a two-story stash house where mattresses covered every inch of the floor. bit.ly/2ETV2QZ
Only then was Carlos allowed to enter the United States with his daughter.
Then they were separated. It took them months to be reunited.
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This journey is dangerous. But for many of these migrants, so is home.
Read more here: bit.ly/2LwytWa
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