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"Under the bridge: migrants held in El Paso tell of dust, cold and hunger

For three days and nights, Maria and her 14-year-old son were penned behind barbed wire, under a bridge in El Paso. Cold, hungry, surrounded by sick and crying babies and with only the stony ground for a bed, her first experience of America was not as she had imagined.

“I came here to work and get a better future for my family,” she said. “I never thought I would go through this.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/31/el-paso-border-bridge-migrants-trump-beto-orourke