A Colombian immigrant died in the Arizona desert along with her 11-year-old daughter while trying to get to the United States
to reunite with her husband
.
Their 3-year-old son was traveling with them, and he was the only one who could survive.
Disoriented and desperate by the heat, Claudia Marcela Peña
called 911 from the Yuma, Arizona area for help
.
"How many people are there with you?" Asks the operator
in the call revealed by Telemundo
.
"
Two children, please help me, I'm going to pass out,
" replies the desperate woman.
In the background one of the children is heard saying: "Mommy, I'm hungry."
The woman planned to meet again with her husband in the United States.
Capture via Telemundo News
The operator sent a WhatsApp message to the woman to share her location.
The call lasted just seconds because her cell phone battery ran out.
Upon arrival, the Border Patrol found her and the girl dead.
The three-year-old boy, who was next to his mother's body, was transferred to an Arizona hospital.
Both would have died due to the high temperatures of the desert
, as their bodies showed no signs of violence, according to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.
The woman and children were abandoned by the coyote who was going to make them cross the border,
according to her family.
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"She left the El Dorado airport in Bogotá on August 21, bound for Mexico; on Tuesday morning she traveled to Tijuana by plane and, that same day, traveled to Mexicali by land where,
supposedly, a coyote was going to meet them. take them to the border,
"Yeni Acevedo, Peña's cousin, told the radio station Blu Radio de Colombia.
"
I have no words to describe the feeling I have at this moment, of impotence and at the same time of strength to go to pick up my son
and to fight day and night for my son," said Víctor Hugo Morales, Peña's husband and father of children, in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.
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"I have come to ask the Colombian Foreign Ministry and the Colombian Government here in the United States to help me repatriate the body of my wife and daughter who died on the line between Mexico and Arizona," added Morales, who lives in the United States. .
"He had come looking for a better future for his children and he did not succeed. The only one who succeeded was my son, who was saved, and at this moment I do not have him with me
, but I am doing everything possible to have him delivered to me," he added.
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The Foreign Ministry, according to the newspaper El Tiempo, indicated that
the child will be in the custody of a center for minors in California until it is defined with whom he would remain in the United States
or if he returns to Colombia "