‘She gave me hope’: puppet Little Amal publicizes migrant plight on US-Mexico border

Puppet depicting migrant Syrian girl has walked halfway around to the world, now at border comforting refugees and asylum seekers

After two years of walking halfway around the world searching for her mother and a new home, a 10-year-old Syrian girl made it to the US-Mexico border.

She reached gate 36 of the port of entry in the border fence, where crowds of asylum seekers and refugees have crossed into the US.