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Guatemalan man seeking asylum drowns along US-Mexico border

by Report for America/ Associated Press
| August 19, 2020 1:03 PM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Guatemalan man who had been living in a makeshift migrant camp while waiting to petition the U.S. government for asylum drowned in the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas, aid workers said Wednesday.

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