Faced with death in desert, father, son split up – The busiest corridor in recent years for illegal immigration along the Mexican border is also a deadly one.
Tagged: border, Guatemala, Guatemalan, Mexico
Faustino Francisco Galvan squinted up at the face of his son, now a dark blur against the bright desert sky.
“I want to stay with you,” he heard the boy say, haltingly. Eloy, 13, was weighing life and death.
Faustino Francisco, 37, was diabetic, and his body was shutting down. He had hiked four days through the Sonoran Desert of Arizona with 15 Mexicans and Guatemalans. They hadn’t slept more than an hour since leaving Mexico. Their water bottles had run dry 30 hours ago. The piece of barrel cactus pulp he had chewed on for moisture only made him vomit.”*
*From: www.middletownjournal.com
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