Led by Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Democrats held a moment of silence on the House floor Thursday afternoon as the chamber was set to take a vote on an emergency border crisis funding bill previously passed by the Senate.

Escobar spoke movingly, at times tearfully, about the photo taken this week of a young girl and her father from El Salvador who were found drowned together on the Mexico side of the Rio Grande after a failed effort to sneak in to the U.S.

The migrant father who drowned alongside his daughter in the Rio Grande was warned beforehand not to cross the river. He was even told it was too dangerous for children @DailyCaller https://t.co/H9gdCQJaPs — Jason Hopkins (@thejasonhopkins) June 27, 2019

Escobar said tens of thousands of migrants have died trying to enter the U.S. because they are “demonized and locked out”.

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Texas @RepEscobar, referencing the photo of drowned migrants along a stretch of the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas, leads the House in a moment of silence for those who have died traveling to the U.S.

🎥 https://t.co/zKNHyF6kZk pic.twitter.com/6uMGfe1Yxp — CSPAN (@cspan) June 27, 2019

Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) led the House in a moment of silence for migrants who have died crossing into US including Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramirez and his daughter Valeria who drowned in the Rio Grande. pic.twitter.com/hxfI3vhBoW — Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 27, 2019

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