Residents in Texas pray for migrants who drowned at U.S.-Mexico border
Local residents in the U.S. state of Texas held a mass in honor of the Salvadoran migrants who died during their journeys, including 25-year-old Oscar Alberto Martinez and his 23-month old daughter, at La Lomita chapel by the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday.
Parishioners tossed wreaths into the Rio Grande river, where the two migrants were drowned, during the mourning ceremony.
Inside the 150-year-old chapel, Father Roy Snipes held the morning mass. He said he had never rung the bell at La Lomita before the mass funeral for the migrants who’ve recently died coming to the U.S.
Tania Vanessa Avalos, widow of the drowned Salvadoran migrant and mother of their deceased daughter, returned home from Mexico on Friday.
