Since Obama ended the ‘wet-foot,dry-foot’ preferential treatment, 1000 Cuban migrants hold gathered in Nuevo Laredo to try to gain US citizenshipAna and Víctor arrived worn out and weary on an early morning bus and made their way straight for the bridge across the Rio Grande into Texas. The Cuban couple headed toward the US immigration offices, or where they planned to apply for political asylum.
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Source: theguardian.com