Dozens of migrants and refugees have arrived on the US-Mexico border, hoping to be allowed into the USA.
In Eagle Go, Texas, migrants and refugees from nations together with Honduras and Venezuela crossed the Rio Grande River that separates the US and Mexico to come across an nearly impassable wall of barbed wire.
“I’m comfortable as a result of I’m one step away … however I’m unhappy as a result of we will’t get via,” stated Noe Zelaya, a Honduran who travelled to the border together with his spouse and two youngsters, aged 12 and 5.
“We couldn’t take the maras [gangs] any extra,” Zelaya, who labored as a mechanic within the Honduran metropolis of San Pedro Sula, stated, referring to organised crime in his nation. “That’s why we fled.”
The household crossed the river with water as much as their chests, as did a few Venezuelans who arrived simply because the solar was beating down on Eagle Go.
“I really feel unhappy as a result of I believed it will be simpler getting right here,” stated Juan Diaz, 28, who recognized himself as a Venezuelan army defector fleeing his nation’s political and financial disaster. “However my dream is to get right here, so I’m going to combat.”
Hundreds of individuals have arrived in current days at numerous border factors in Texas with few belongings, fleeing political regimes or in the hunt for financial alternatives.
In August, the US reported 232,972 migrants and refugees reached its southern land border, a rise in current months.