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Maria Isabel Ventura rushed her husband from Blythe to Palm Springs several weeks ago, watching with despair as he struggled to breathe along the 120-mile journey through the desert. Infected with COVID-19, he was so weak by the time they arrived that he needed a wheelchair to travel from the car to the doors of Desert Regional Medical Center’s emergency department.
After receiving oxygen over a 10-day stay at Desert Regional Medical Center, her husband is home and isolating. She, meanwhile, is effectively quarantining. She was diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago, leaving her vulnerable to the virus.
New year brings fresh optimism for migrants stranded in Mexico 3 minutes read
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.