Trump's Cruelty Fails to Stop Migrants Fleeing Deadly Central American Gangs

[DonViejo]

‘If they do separate us, at least I know we’ll be reunited at some point,’ one mother in Tijuana said. ‘In my country the risks are far worse.’

JASON MCGAHAN
07.08.18 4:37 PM ET

TIJUANA, Mexico—Early on the morning of July 4, Carmen Palma strapped her 10-month-old daughter to her chest, hugged goodbye to women with whom she shared a dormitory, and wheeled her suitcase out of the migrant shelter where she has resided in this border city for longer than she cares to recall.

Palma is a 28-year-old mother of three who fled her native El Salvador in March after a life-threatening brush with members of a street gang. She is one of more than a thousand migrants in Tijuana who are waiting their turn to file for asylum in the United States.

The packing of her bags, the well-wishing goodbyes, and the early-morning trek across the city have become an almost daily ritual for her.

Palma has lost count of how many times she has made the journey to the PedWest border crossing at San Ysidro, California, only to be turned away. But on the morning of the Independence Day holiday in the U.S., she was feeling confident that her number literally would come up.

The next number on the list was 324, and Palma had number 330. “We’re getting close,” she said.

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