Moments before the House vote, Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro says Democrats' border aid legislation will finally remedy the emergency on the border and predicts a 'strong vote.'
The image of the Salvadoran father and his daughter lying face down in the water of the Rio Grande, part of the US border with Mexico, is a heartbreaking testimony to the suffering behind the numbers.
Their bodies have come to rest near a river bank where five discarded beer cans and an empty soda bottle sit in the tall reeds. Another beer can floats next to the girl's body.Mexican authorities walk along the Rio Grande bank where the bodies of the father and child were found.The photo evoked memories of a 3-year-old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, whose body washed up on a beach in Turkey.
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