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El Salvador's President: 'People Flee . . . Because They Feel They Have To'

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   "People don't flee their homes because they want to, people flee their
   homes because they feel they have to," El Salvador's president said
   Sunday.

   Nayib Bukele told a briefing in San Salvador that the death of a father
   and his young daughter who drowned trying to reach the United States
   was "tragic."

   The photograph of the two migrants, face down in the river between
   Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas, with the nearly2-year-old
   girl's arm across her father's neck has garnered worldwide attention.
   Their bodies were returned to El Salvador Sunday for burial in a
   private ceremony in the capital Monday.

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