The Colombian Consulate in Los Angeles, USA UU., Was notified of the finding of the lifeless body of a woman and a girl in the Yuma, Arizona area, those who would have died from the intense heat wave affecting the area.
Next to mother and daughter they also found one three-year-old boy who, though exhausted by heat, survived.
The family, who apparently sought to enter the United States illegally, was located by one border patrol that before the poignant scene it acted according to the protocols and to transfer to the minor until a hospital of Phoenix.
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According to ‘Blu Ràdio’, the mother was identified as Claudia Marcela Penya and she went to the United States to meet her husband, Hugo Pinzón.
“She left El Dorado Airport for Mexico on Saturday, August 21, on Tuesday morning she traveled to Tijuana by plane and that same day, she traveled to Mexicali by land where, allegedly, a ‘coyote ‘I was going to take them to the border’, Explained Yeni Acevedo, cousin of the victim, to the mentioned radial chain.
Penya and her two children, ages 11 and three, would have been abandoned by the subject who was helping them enter American country, according to early reports.
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In addition, the Stationery confirmed that the child “will be in the custody of a California juvenile center until it is defined with whom he would remain in the United States or if he returns to Colombia.”
They also noted that they have already contacted relatives to “guide them on the possibility of repatriate in Colombia the bodies or ashes of the dead “.
Although the causes of death have not been confirmed, apparently, mother and daughter would not have endured the intense temperatures, as they had no signs of violence. Not surprisingly, the Arizona desert is known as a ‘deadly trap’ for undocumented migrants who daily attempt to enter the US. UU.
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In fact, until August 2020, about a thousand immigrants they had to be rescued by border guards, who found them weak, injured or in complicated health due to fatigue from long walks and intense heat waves.
Unfortunately, many people, as in the case of Claudia and her daughter, are not lucky enough to be rescued and die along the way. In 2019, for example, US authorities found 153 bodies lifeless.
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