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Writers on the Range: They struggle to come to America: One woman’s story

The border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
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The border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

This week, contributor Laura Pritchett writes about an educated Venezuelan woman who traveled through 10 countries before arriving at "a very large hole" in the wall between Mexico and the United States. Determined, lucky, helped by strangers during her trip, her journey had to be attempted, she told Pritchett, because in Venezuela, she and her family were starving.