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  • 11 years ago
Dozens of Central American women stranded at a bus station in Laredo, Texas, Friday.

Local migrant detention centers are full, as undocumented migrants continue to pour across the Mexican border.

Authorities have granted them permission to stay for 30 days.

Then they must present their case to a judge.

With nowhere to go, they wait in the bus station.

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) INGRID ZULEMA QUINONEZ, HONDURAN IMMIGRANT, SAYING:

"We have a month. I will go before the court and depending, we'll see what they tell me there."

Most of the women are from Honduras.

Many migrants risk their lives to flee to the U.S. on dangerous, overcrowded trains through Mexico.

Organized crime is rampant in Central America and jobs are limited.

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) INGRID ZULEMA QUINONEZ, HONDURAN IMMIGRANT, SAYING:

"Where I come from, delinquency is all there is. It is very bad there. In your own country, they take everything from you. We have
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