By Anna Mehler Paperny and Ted Hesson CHAMPLAIN, New York and WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bookseller Zulema Diaz fled her native Peru after being kidnapped.
CHAMPLAIN, New York and WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bookseller Zulema Diaz fled her native Peru after being kidnapped, beaten and robbed, hoping to find safety in the United States. Instead, she said she experienced homelessness and sexual harassment as she worked off-the-books on a hospital cleaning crew.
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The number of asylum-seekers entering Canada between formal border crossings has surged to the highest point since the government started tracking them in 2017, as dropped pandemic restrictions enable more travel and conflict and catastrophe displace people in many parts of the world. In the first eight months of 2022,…