Dozens of hopeful asylum seekers and refugees mill about the parking lot of a suburban strip mall on the north side of San Antonio, next door to a migration resource centre run by the southern US border city.Most set out from homes in Ecuador and Nicaragua weeks earlier to make dangerous treks north in search of a safer, better life in the United States.Ecuadoreans Juleisy, 19, and Fernanda, 25 – who asked that their last names not be used due to safety concerns – met along the way, avoiding kidnapping, extortion, and rape at the hands of drug cartels.
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