Brazilians arrive in waves at the US-Mexico border

CEDAR ATTANASIO and PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press
Updated 1:31 pm CST, Friday, December 13, 2019



EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, hotel clerk Joe Luis Rubio never thought he'd be trying to communicate in Portuguese on a daily basis.

But with hundreds of Brazilians crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, each week, the Motel 6 by the airport has become a stepping stone for thousands of the Portuguese speakers on a 6,000-mile (9,500 km) journey from Brazil to El Paso to America's East Coast.

“Thank God for Google Translate or we’d be lost,” says Rubio.

The quiet migration of around 17,000 Brazilians through a single U.S. city in the past year reveals a new frontier in the Trump administration's effort to shut down the legal immigration pathway for people claiming fear of persecution.

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https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Brazilians-arrive-in-waves-at-the-US-Mexico-border-14905013.php

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