A mother and her toddler from Honduras drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas, authorities said.
The Honduran mother died with her son, 21-month-old son, Iker Gael Cordova Herrera, while trying to cross the Rio Grande river into Texas, Nelly Jerez, the Honduran vice foreign minister of consular and migration affairs, said in a statement obtained by CNN.
Jerez said the pair had recently entered the US and made a request for asylum but they were sent to Matamoros, Mexico, to wait for an immigration court hearing.
Last week, Herrera Hernandez told her husband that she felt scared and nervous about crossing the Rio Grande.
Earlier this year, a 23-month-old girl from El Salvador and her father drowned crossing the Rio Grande near Matamoros.