Trump blames Democrats for migrant drowning deaths as Congress at odds over border crisis

The drowning deaths of two migrants is causing a stoush at the highest levels of US politics.

The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martnez Ramrez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria. Source: AAP

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President Donald Trump has blamed his rival Democratic Party for the deaths of two migrants on the US-Mexico border, which were captured in a "heartbreaking" photo earlier this week.

The photo shows the lifeless bodies of El Salvador migrants Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria, who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas.

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