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Migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Africa and Asia who want to reach the US recently found themselves stranded by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, Panama has reopened its borders and the new US President Joe Biden appears more sensitive to their cause, so the migrants have started moving again. But the journey to the US is long and treacherous. They first have to cross the thick and swampy Darién jungle, on the border between Colombia and Panama. Hundreds arrive every day at Bajo Chiquito, a poor village in Panama three hours by boat from the closest road. Our correspondents report.
Hiking across the Italian-French Alps, especially in the winter, is difficult even for migrants who have overcome other arduous obstacles along the way.
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The rescinding of the Obama-era decree that allows so-called dreamers to stay in the United States means 800 thousand undocumented residents, all of whom arrived before age 16, now face the threat of deportation to the land of their parents. And while Americans grapple over the fate of dreamers and immigration reform, over in the UK it's legal migrants from EU that are in the crosshairs of the government.
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