A couple of young immigrants of Venezuelan origin recorded a message of happiness for finally crossing the Rio Bravo or Rio Grande, but they were the last minutes of their lives, since they died trying.
Walter González Piña, aged 21, and Exleiker González, aged 26 years, they were very happy after traveling hundreds of kilometers from Venezuela.
“We made it dad”, they said in front of the camera while they were submerged in the river, which had already had reports of strong currents and areas deeper than it seemed.
The organization 1800migrante.com confirmed that among the group of people who died on that occasion, at least eight, two were the young Venezuelans.
“Both Venezuelans left with different destinations, but with a common dream”, says the organization that shared the latest video of the young migrants.
In The images show a third man who was in front of them, the report indicates. His name is Guady González, who called Walter’s father to give him the bad news.
“The boy who was ahead, when he reached the shore, turned around and did not look at them… (he said) that He spent almost an hour looking for them and didn’t find them, then he turned himself in to Immigration and informed the authorities and they went out to look for them, but they didn’t find anything either,” said the young man’s father.
Walter was going to reconnect to reconnect with his parents who live in Texas with whom he was in contact practically the entire trajectory, indicates the report.
“When it was learned that several citizens had drowned and their son was no longer communicated, he was concerned and the father contacted 1800migrante.com to help him look for his son, this organization gave him several recommendations and found his body in the morgue of El Paso Medical Center”, he settled.
The young man was cremated and his ashes were given to his parents.
“It is better to die and not see a dead son”, said the father.
The Exleiker Gonzalez’s mother lives in Medellin, Colombia, from where she expressed the pain of losing her son, who left three children in distress.
“Exleiker was originally from Maracaibo , was a Venezuelan refugee who lived in Colombia for the last 6 years, a barber by profession, his income was not enough to support his three minor children, their ages range between 8, 3 and a baby less than a year old, “he says. the report.
That was the reason that made him travel to the US, where he finally lost his life.