The Little Girl, Drowned with her Father when her Family Tried to Cross into the US

The Mexican government puts all the cards on the table on migration with the so-called 'total deployment'. This is how President Andrés Manuel López Obrador defined Tuesday the dispatch of 15,000 National Guard troops to the border with the United States. This last deployment, together with the military that already patrolled the southern border with Guatemala, brings the total number of displaced soldiers to 26,000. All of them pursue two main objectives: to reduce the flow of Central American migrants to the United States and to combat trafficking mafias. This decision has been received with great enthusiasm by the US Government , including its Vice President Mike Pence He has taken the opportunity to congratulate the Mexicans: "Mexico continues to do more than the Democratic congressmen to secure our border, it is time for them to take a step forward".

During the morning press conference of President López Obrador, Mexican General Sandoval González has advanced some details of this major operation that seeks to seal the border crossings from Tijuana to Matamoros, in the north, and from Chetumal to Tapachula, on the southern border. The military will support the work of the migration agents in the field since, as General Sandoval has revealed: "If we left it entirely to the National Institute of Migration, it would not be possible, they are effective, so we are supporting them with this task, with a strategy on both borders."

The Secretary of Public Safety, Alfonso Durazo, also present at the conference, has insisted that: "Migration will not lose its humanitarian character", but that the deployment is very necessary because: "We can not be naive when fighting against traffickers are the main responsible for the increase in the flow of migration, there is a lot of money involved. " Durazo's assertion, and the new military deployment, comes just hours after the tragic death of a Salvadoran baby and his father in his attempt to reach the United States.

A SALVADORAN AYLAN

Just one kilometer away from the official crossing of Matamoros to the United States, the strong current of the Rio Grande dragged on Monday the dead bodies of Salvadoran Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, and his daughter Valeria, one year and 11 months old. The scene was documented by the Mexican newspaper 'La Jornada' when he found Valeria's mother, Tania Vannesa Ávalos, desperately seeking the help of the authorities. As detailed by the Salvadoran mother, her husband crossed with Valeria and left her on the other side before returning for his wife. However, seeing herself alone, Valeria returned to the river. When Óscar saw what was happening he launched himself to his rescue, but both were swept away by the current.

The corpses of both were found hours later along the shore, with the body of the small Valeria tucked inside Oscar's shirt. As it has transpired, the family was living in the migrant camp 'Puerta Mexico' in Matamoros, waiting for an appointment to apply for asylum in the United States. Unfortunately, after two months without the procedures progressing, the family lost patience and decided to try to reach the United States through an illegal crossing. A fatal decision that has left a picture that recalls the death of Aylan , the Syrian boy whose body dragged the current to a Turkish beach in 2015.