Despite the risk, families ventured to swim wearing only life jackets when the first ‘raft’ emptied of the lily entering the water.
Tied with a mecate (rope) and accompanied by little ones who had to endure the low temperatures, they reached their goal after the icy wave that began to register in the region.
“Sometimes we have nothing to eat, even though they come to help us. We’ve been here for about 30 days and nothing to open the bridge for us,” said the Venezuelan Dubraska Tovar, mother of five children with whom she passed the Rio Grande.
Some, waiting inside Mexico To review their affairs and now form a new camp, they were introduced to help families move forward, especially because of the danger of children fleeing, including a five-month-old Chilean baby.
“We have almost a month (at the Mexican border), we have sent leaflets everywhere, there is no response, they say nothing, no message,” said the Peruvian. Richard Abrahamwho arrived in the territory of the United States with his wife and child through this channel.
A member of the Border Patrol He jumped into the river and after helping some minors to reach the mainland, he took out a knife to tear the plastic so that the migrants would no longer be transported this way, but they had already bought another.
Source: El heraldo
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