Norme Mendez, wife of Salvadoran migrant Marvin Antonio Gonzalez, who recently died in a border detention center in New Mexico, shows pictures of Marvin at her home in Verapaz, El Salvador August 2, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
VERAPAZ, El Salvador (Reuters) - Like many Salvadoran migrants before them, Marvin Gonzalez and his eight-year-old daughter Joselyn set off from their farm surrounded by corn and sugarcane one morning in early July with dreams of better lives in the United States.
Gonzalez, 32, planned to reunite the girl with her mother in North Carolina, and later send for his current wife from El Salvador.
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