'I told him not to follow the American dream,' mother of drowned Salvadoran migrant laments
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The mother of a Salvadoran man who drowned with his young daughter while trying to reach U.S. soil and became a global symbol of the dangers of migration, said she urged her son not to “follow the American dream” before he left their country.