27 Jun 2019

US migrant crisis: Tragic photo captures grim reality

From Morning Report, 6:12 am on 27 June 2019

The grim reality of the migrant crisis unfolding on America's southern border has been captured in a photo that is being shared around the world.

The photo shows a father and his two-year-old daughter lying face down drowned in the Rio Grande.

Her little arms are still wrapped around her father's neck.

The father Óscar Ramírez, had traveled from El Salvador with his family, hoping to claim asylum in the United States.

Washington DC correspondent Simon Marks reports.