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Uprooted again: Venezuela migrants cross US border in droves

by Joshua Goodman
| June 28, 2021 12:09 AM

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Marianela Rojas huddles in prayer with her fellow migrants, a tearful respite after trudging across a slow-flowing stretch of the Rio Grande and nearly collapsing onto someone's backyard lawn, where, seconds before, she stepped on American soil for the first time.

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