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Anderson Hernandez is an eight-year-old Honduran boy who crossed the border between Mexico and the United States afflicted by the gloom he lived on the road. He cried and was captured by images from American television. His story saddened the Latino community in the United States.
Now, after being sent to Mexico last month, he set foot on American territory again. Now his story includes not only sadness, but a smile, accompanied by his pare.
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Anderson was granted alongside his father legal accreditation to remain in the United States. “I’ve been enduring hunger on the road,” the minor told the chain Telemundo when he recently got off the raft he carried him through the Great river, On the border between Mexico and the United States. The little one passed the debacle of the migratory path from Honduras going hungry and thirsty.
“Every day I come walking and enduring hungerAnderson said when a Telemundo reporter asked him what he had experienced in his migratory odyssey. His tears rolling down his cheeks caused a myriad of emotions internationally.
Anderson’s mother died eight months before giving birth to her sister. His father, Reinaldo Hernández, chose to embark on a migratory career to the north of the continent, helpless and betting on a new life.
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The United States expelled them on arrival in that country. In Mexico, Hondurans were installed in a refuge for migrants, in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. there, another 3,000 people they lived similar cases.
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The desperate father managed to send one application to U.S. immigration authorities. Asylum was considered by United States and his request was later accepted, unleashing the duo’s happiness between father and son.
happiness
“It was a long, long night, waiting for an answer“, Reinaldo Hernández describes to Telemundo. His insistence was successful and now they have fulfilled the dream that was proposed when leaving Honduran territory by land.
“I want to move on with my studies. I already lost two years. I want to keep going. I want to win medals and trophies“Anderson explains eloquently to the Telemundo reporter. They now live in Houston with relatives.
They crossed the border this Tuesday. Now not aboard a makeshift raft, but by the border bridge, between Texas and Tamaulipas.
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Hondurans did not lose their smiles, with a backpack in hand, where they kept their documents. On the bridge they protected the migration agents, now without posing a threat that will curb their longings.
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