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Caribbean-Latin America
Stuck at border, migrants still hope for asylum in US
2020-08-24
[DW] In 2018, a group of Central Americans set off for the US, desperate to claim asylum. Their arduous trek made headlines. Today, many of them are still stranded on the US-Mexican border.

In early March, Maria, a 45-year-old Nicaraguan whose name has been changed for her safety, learned she will not be granted asylum in the United States.

Global attention, which once focused on the migrants colonists' plight, has since shifted to other crises across the world. Desperate migrants colonists like Maria and thousands of others from countries including Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, seem all but forgotten.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  they're not stranded. Turn around an walk your ass back.
Posted by: Chris   2020-08-24 09:33  

#6  still stranded, but better off than she was at home.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-08-24 09:15  

#5  US President Donald Trump's tough stance on immigration.

it's insane that a 'tough stance' means applying the laws as written, but here we are.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-08-24 08:58  

#4  undocumented democrats
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-08-24 08:57  

#3  This is a lie, they can only claim asylum in the first safe country.
These gimmigrants travelled through several countries to try and parasite upon American taxpayers.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-08-24 04:18  

#2  Why would they want to immigrate to this racist, dark country?
Posted by: gorb   2020-08-24 01:54  

#1  eff off. go home and fix your own sh!tholes
Posted by: Ulomose Crang9669   2020-08-24 00:24  

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