As the image went viral, the migrants' names were drowned for a second time in a sea of sensationalizing media. administration, it also reiterated the way brown and black Latinx bodies are seen in the American political imaginary: as alien subjects of tragedy, misfortune, and violence, washing up on this side of the Rio Grande. But if the harrowing image became yet another banner of the border crisis, a crisis exacerbated by the current U.S. The girl was still wrapped in her father's black shirt, a gesture of love, protection, and determination against the currents that ultimately overcame their bodies. Their bodies lay lifeless on the river bank overgrown with riparian plants. Late in June 2019, like many others worldwide, I viewed, aghast, the photograph of the drowned bodies of 26-year-old Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria.
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