‘I feel safe here’: why millions are leaving everything behind to seek refuge in US
by Lorena Figueroa in El Paso, Texas from US news | The Guardian on (#6BXMM)
Political dysfunction and economic calamity are pushing people from many nations in the western hemisphere in what Biden has called the largest migration in human history'
US homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has a message for migrants that he has been repeating loudly and frequently: Our border is not open ... don't risk your life and your life savings" to come to the US seeking refuge without invitation.
But for millions, hunger, violence and fear ring out louder. Political dysfunction and economic calamity are pushing people from many nations in the western hemisphere in what US president Joe Biden has called the largest migration in human history", exacerbated in Latin America and beyond by the coronavirus pandemic.
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