Venezuelan migrants having breakfast at a shelter in Assis, a city southwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil. — AP
DOZENS of migrants sleep in a mosquito-infested six-bedroom wooden shelter in the Brazilian Amazon, their dreams of a better life in the United States on hold because of President Joe Biden’s halt on asylum.
Johany “Flaca” Rodriguez, 48, was ready to leave behind the struggles of life in Venezuela. She has been waiting in the shelter holding 45 people in Assis Brasil, a city of 7,000 residents bordering Peru, because others told her how difficult the journey to the US has become.
