Yeison, who has spent months in Mexico waiting to make an asylum case in the US, will now get that chance but will probably have to leave Niko behind.
A 23-year-old Venezuelan man is preparing to say goodbye to a pet squirrel he says he brought from his home country on a journey to Mexico.
The pair are an unusual but blunt reflection of the emotional choices migrants make over what to take – and what to leave behind – as they embark on the dangerous trip north.Yeison, who declined to give his last name because he fears for his family’s safety in Venezuela, said going without Niko was out of the question.Yeison has secured an appointment to present himself at the border to seek entry to the US and request asylum.
For six months, Yeison and Niko lived in a tent at an encampment with hundreds of other migrants in Matamoros. The chances are slim that Yeison can take Niko across the border, but volunteers at the encampment are not giving up. The picky squirrel, Yeison said, prefers nibbling on pine trees and is fed tomatoes and mangoes, even in times when food is hard to come by.Niko and Yeison in their tent at a migrant camp in Mexico
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Venezuelan faces having to part with pet squirrel after making it to US borderYeison, who has spent months in Mexico waiting to make an asylum case in the US, will now get that chance but will probably have to leave Niko…
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Venezuelan faces having to part with pet squirrel after making it to US borderYeison, who has spent months in Mexico waiting to make an asylum case in the US, will now get that chance but will probably have to leave Niko…
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