Asylum Seekers Caught In A Political Battle In New York Washington
But life remained hard – money was tight and expenses mounted. So he set out for the United States, an odyssey that required him to travel on foot through the Central American jungle infested with poisonous snakes and bandits, sometimes passing the corpses of people who died on the same journey. Now Maldonado and thousands of other asylum seekers from across Latin America and the Caribbean are caught up in the political battle over US immigration policy after two Republican governors began sending busloads of migrants to New York and Washington....