Photo from the Rio Grande captures the tragic end for a father and daughter
by Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
Jun 27, 2019
3 minutes
MEXICO CITY - Sometimes an image is so powerful, it cuts through almost any noise.
That has happened with a graphic photograph of a dead man and child taken this week along the U.S.-Mexico border by journalist Julia Le Duc.
The photo, which was originally published Monday by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada and went viral on social media, shows a migrant and his less than 2-year-old daughter lying face down in the murky waters on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. The girl's right arm rests across the back of her father's neck.
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