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Honduran mother, toddler drown trying to enter the US while waiting for immigration court hearing
https://pix11.com/2019/09/19/honduran-mother-toddler-drown-trying-to-enter-the-us-while-waiting-for-immigration-court-hearing/Idalia Yamileth Herrera Hernandez grew increasingly desperate with her toddler in Mexico as they waited for weeks for their day in court. It never came.
Migrants cross the Rio Grande river (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
The Honduran mother died with her son, 21-month-old son, Iker Gael Cordova Herrera, while trying to cross the Rio Grande river into Texas, Nelly Jerez, the Honduran vice foreign minister of consular and migration affairs, said in a statement obtained by CNN.
Their bodies were recovered last week in an area near San Felipe Creek in Val Verde County after an “intensive search” by air and water, according to a US Customs and Border Protection spokesperson.
Jerez said the pair had recently entered the US and made a request for asylum but they were sent to Matamoros, Mexico, to wait for an immigration court hearing.