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Migrants pause in the Amazon because getting to the US is harder. Most have no idea what lies ahead
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Venezuelan migrants eat breakfast at a shelter in Assis, Brazil, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Migrants, police, officials and analysts say President Joe Biden’s halt on asylum have caused a wait-and-see attitude among migrants staying in Brazil, placing their plans of reaching the U.S. on hold. - photo by AP Photo/Martin Mejia
ASSIS BRASIL, 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 U.S. on hold because of President Joe Biden’shalt on asylum. Johany “Flaca” Rodríguez, 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 U.S. has become.