When she learned that her son and grandson had decided to travel from El Salvador to the U.S. to find work, Vilma Gutierrez tried to convince them not to go, worried by the many risks migrants face on their journey north.
On Wednesday, Carlos Pacheco, her son, appeared on a list of 39 people who died in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, detention center fire, one of the deadliest migrant tragedies in years.
Pacheco, a 43-year-old bricklayer from the impoverished El Sauce neighborhood, some 37 miles west of the Salvadoran capital, decided to travel with Marvin to find a better paying job so he could send money home, help his parents stop working and buy a family home. "They left because the situation here is tough. He worked and he said he wanted a better future for us and we couldn't reach it here," she said.
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