![]() ![]() ![]() The family didn’t use human smugglers, Ortega said. They survived the slog and danger of walking through the hellish Darién Gap jungle into Panama and trudged through Central America and Mexico, fraught with risk, especially for foreigners migrating on a shoestring. When they failed to get legal status and couldn’t access the healthcare system or school for Matías, like many others they left Colombia for the US. ![]() But they were paid less, as migrants, the equivalent of $35 a week between them, when a staple such as milk was $3 a liter and the rent was crippling, she said. Ortega found work in a restaurant kitchen and López labored in a plastics factory in Medellín. They fled Venezuela during the county’s economic collapse and pervasive hunger. Yesi Ortega, 24, with her husband, Raphael López, and their five-year-old son, Matías. ![]()
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