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“I have undrowned”

Abara | Apr 2026

Hope is thick in the borderlands. Many have persevered through extortion, assault, hunger, and the harshest of hazards to make it here. Whether families arrived from further south in the Americas or from other Mexican states, Ciudad Juárez… Read the story

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