Asylum seekers along Mexican border express hope with Biden in office
The election of Joe Biden as US president has sparked some optimism that their plight may be resolved soon
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Central American migrants walk north through Chiapas, Mexico, toward the US. (Photo: Wall Street Journal)
Idalia Reyes remembers the desperation that drove her to seek out smugglers to take her children, unaccompanied, to the United States. Reyes and her children lived in a tent camp along the Rio Grande, where they endured crime, cold snaps and infestations of insects and snakes.
After her children, ages 7 and 4, suffered an outbreak of sores, she sought out smugglers, who floated the children across the river in the dead of night to the U.S. side. The children promptly surrendered to immigration officials and were reunited with their father, who was already residing in the United States with an older son.