This is the confession of the father and daughter who drowned, demanding the best life in America.

The bodies of Oscar Alberto Martinez and his 23 - month - old daughter, Angie Valerias, lying in the water, appeared in a photograph that took the world's lap.

The picture taken Monday was a grim reminder of the dangerous route migrants must take to write in the United States, translates Periscope from CNN.

Father and his daughter had drowned on Sunday in Rio Grande as they passed through Mexico to Texas, near Brownsville. In fact, they had managed to cross to Texas first, with Martinez leaving his two - year - old daughter on the shore to return to pick up his wife.

But when Angie Valerie saw her father swimming on the other side, she jumped after him. Then Father had returned to save him, but a strong sea current flooded them and left them dead.

First, the photo was published by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada and spread at an amazing pace, promoting big reactions in Mexico as well as in the United States.

These families have nothing, and they are risking everything for a better life. If such scenes do not make us think again, then our society is in the wrong direction. ”

Their family members have expressed grief over the event. “Valeria was a cheerful child. She had not been two years old, but she enjoyed dancing, playing games, and touching family hair. Her father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, was always a working man, but she sold her motorcycle and borrowed some money to take her family from El Salvador to the United States.

They had traveled from El Salvador to southern Mexico so that when they arrived in the United States, they could seek asylum and flee from the violence that keeps many Americans from their countries.

America looked to their eyes before they died.