TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Margelis Rodriguez and her two children took selfies on their flight to Tijuana, showing off the T-shirts she had custom-made to mark what she expected to be her family’s life-changing moment.
On the back of the shirts were their names and the flags of the six countries they passed through in 2024. On the front between the flags of her native Venezuela and the United States, was written in Spanish: “Yes it was possible, thank God. The wait was worth it. I made it!!”
The celebratory words now sting — driving home how close they came without making it and how precarious their lives are with
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