A Venezuelan family recounts the story of their journey to America: thousands of miles though perilous conditions, alongside 11 relatives, among them four children, who ranged in age from newborn to seven years old.
Deep in the jungle, Yenis Andrade and her husband, Alexis, were ordered to stay quiet. The couple and their infant child were entering one of the most dangerous parts of their trek across the Darién Gap, a sixty-mile stretch of rugged mountains, rain forest, and swamps that extends on both sides of the border between Panama and Colombia. It was, as their smuggler informed them, where thefts and rapes by armed groups most commonly occurred.
Alexis told everyone in the group that they had lost their minds. He had heard horror stories surrounding the Darién Gap, where the number of migrants attempting to cross the jungle had risen sharply, as had the number of people who did not make it out of the area alive.
To accommodate everyone’s budgets, the family chose the lengthiest route and agreed on a departure date: the twenty-sixth of May. Eleven family members, among them four children, who ranged in age from newborn to seven years old, would join Alexis, Yenis, and their daughter. Carrying several hundred dollars in cash, the couple got on a bus with the rest of the group headed to Necoclí, a coastal town on the southernmost tip of the Caribbean Sea.
Along the way, the family had to haggle with human traffickers and local authorities. They spent a month and a half crossing Mexico, Alexis said, where it was hard to tell an immigration agent from a smuggler. Near the southern border, the couple spotted many other migrants, mostly from Venezuela. U.S. Border Patrol agents were detaining high numbers of Venezuelan migrants and releasing them in the United States while their immigration cases were being processed.
On the American shore, Alexis shed his first tears. He, his wife, and their child were thirsty, starved, and exhausted from the heat, but they had reached their destination at last. Near the riverbanks, the family came across a U.S. Border Patrol station, where an officer in uniform warned them, in broken Spanish, “If you’re carrying a phone, tell your relatives you’ve made it through, before immigration agents take your phones away.
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