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A woman seeking asylum in the U.S and waiting in Mexico, is tested at a clinic in Matamoros, Mexico, Nov. 17, 2020. A humanitarian organization led by U.S. military veterans has treated thousands of migrants over the past year at two clinics in a Mexican town across the border from Texas. But Global Response Management is attempting to go beyond mere crisis response and build a system to make it easier to track the health of migrants along their journey from Central America.
Aurora Leticia Cruz has tried to keep up with her blood pressure medication since fleeing Guatemala more than a year ago, but the limbo she finds herself in stuck in a sprawling camp at the Texas border after traversing Mexico has made that hard.
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Maria de Jesus Ruiz Carrasco says she would have lost her foot if volunteers from a health care non-profit hadn t stepped in.
Maria de Jesus Ruiz Carrasco says she would have lost her foot if volunteers from a health care non-profit hadn t stepped in.
The 31-year-old Cuban woman was rescued by Border Patrol agents who found her along the Rio Grande with a broken leg in October after she said she d been dumped in the river by kidnappers from who she had tried to escape.
She underwent two surgeries at a hospital in Brownsville, Texas. But two weeks later, Carrasco was sent back to Matamoros with an oozing wound and 14 pins in her leg. U.S. Customs and Border Protection guidelines recommend asylum seekers with medical problems not be returned to Mexico.
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A woman seeking asylum in the U.S and waiting in Mexico, is tested at a clinic in Matamoros, Mexico, Nov. 17. A humanitarian organization led by U.S. military veterans has treated thousands of migrants over the past year at two clinics in a Mexican town across the border from Texas. But Global Response Management is attempting to go beyond mere crisis response and build a system to make it easier to track the health of migrants along their journey from Central America.
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Mileydis Tamayo, right, a nurse from Cuba who is living in Mexico while she seek asylum in the U.S., talks with Maria de Jesus Ruiz Carrasco, also an asylum seeker from Cuba who broke her leg, at a clinic in Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 18.