Migrants from Venezuela, Columbia and Guatemala were sent to Sacramento by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and say they feel duped.
They saw themselves in the video that Florida officials offered up as proof of their consent to travel to California, but they said it’s not what it seemed.They had finally made it to America after traveling thousands of miles over the span of three months from their home in Venezuela. They walked until their feet bled and caught a bus or a train when they could. Sometimes they went days without eating and collapsed with exhaustion.
After journeying from Central and South America to escape violence and poverty at home, they have unknowingly landed at the center of a political firestorm in the United States. When the married couple crossed the border to enter Texas, it meant that it had all been worth it: that they could send money home to their children, whom they had left behind with a grandparent in Venezuela, with hopes of eventually reuniting.So the smiles on their faces inwere real. But that’s because they were promised so much more, they said.
He is tall and strong. But as he sat in the sanctuary of the Parkside Community Church, he nervously rubbed his legs whenever the topic turned to his children. Tears rolled down this face.
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