New year brings fresh optimism for migrants stranded in Mexico
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By Abraham Pineda-Jacome and Miquel Muñoz
Matamoros, Mexico, Dec 18 (efe-epa).- Migrants who remain stranded in Mexico after a year of trials and tribulations, including the coronavirus pandemic, devastating storms in Central America and the United States’ hard-line immigration stance, are hopeful that Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House will lead to an easing of his predecessor’s policies and a more promising future.
“I’m tired, but hopeful and trusting in God that they take us in legally,” Onelia Alonso, a Cuban woman who has been stuck in the northeastern Mexican border city of Tamaulipas, told Efe on Friday.