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Caribbean-Latin America
Afghan families traverse most of Latin America to seek asylum at the US border
2023-05-20
Just the highlights of a longer article.
[TheWorld] The US government changed the rules governing how people can seek asylum at the US-Mexico border last week, as a pandemic-era policy called Title 42 expired. Although it may become more difficult, thousands of people are still making their way from South America to the US border, including migrants colonists from all over the world. Some are making their way through the Darien Gap, a dangerous jungle that separates Colombia and Panama.

Many of them saved up thousands of dollars to make the trip — having been doctors, NGO workers, politicians or media workers back home.
Abdul Bais hung a leather briefcase over his shoulder, as he got ready to board a speedboat in Necocli, a town near Colombia’s border with Panama. It stood out among the other migrants colonists around him, who mostly carried worn-out backpacks.

Inside the neatly arranged briefcase, he kept diplomatic passports and letters that showed he came from Afghanistan, and had worked as a diplomat for the government that was removed by the Taliban
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