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In the midst of a bitter cold and barely wearing a layer of clothing, a Nicaraguan couple have just arrived in New York City.
Fleeing their country, they faced many dangers to reach the United States and traveled on what is known as “The Train of Death”.
“I had never traveled on a train before, I literally had to get off the train as fast as possible, even if I was running,” says Martha Canales, who left Nicaragua.
Already at the border and after being released from immigration from Mexico, they crossed the Rio Grande without knowing how to swim.
“The boy told me where you’re going, it’s deep, he told me and I said it doesn’t matter I’ll see what I do and thank God when we passed the water reached me up to here, up to my waist and the currents they didn’t make themselves felt or maybe my own nerves,” he recalls.
The experience that now brings tears to his eyes is something he says he doesn’t want to repeat.
“No, and I was planning on taking my daughter with me, but with everything I’ve been through, no.”
Both will be looking for winter coats while preparing their asylum application. It is very complicated to meet the legal requirements for asylum.
Since October 12, the Department of Homeland Security has begun to deport Venezuelan migrants arriving irregularly in Mexico and since then the flow of Nicaraguans into the interior of the country has increased. Ángela González, Voice of America, New York.
