about the upper class, he says. i wish i was never born, living feels so exhausting, he says. after saving up enough to restart his truck, he heads to this bus station where ticket sellers hold up signs like this one in chinese that reads, colombian border. more than a dozen chinese migrants board the bus north, we go with them for the four hour plus ride, on board, they plan the next moves. california. california, that s the ultimate goal. jung plans to stay here for two nights and hire a cab to take him over the border . as a lot of the migrants are able to pay their way in taxi to get to the international bridge crossing from ecuador to columbia, we noticed a lot of folks, migrants from latin american countries, not having the money to do that. so they walk.
it cuts his travel time down to about half that of most latino migrants, but it s costly. by the time he reaches northern mexico, he has spend more than $10,000 with one more border to go. a camera we set up facing the u.s. southern border captures weeks of crossings, thousands entering the u.s. through this gap in the wall group after group, day and night, you can hear these migrants shouting in chinese. they end up where we started, san diego county burning fires through the night to keep warm and during the day, expecting border patrol to pick them up. just before new year s, jung messages us he too has crossed into the u.s. and is waiting to be processed for asylum. joining the thousands who have crossed before him and the many more to come. david culver, cnn, los angeles. what a story.