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Lilly Quiroz

Is the American dream worth the risk? These migrants hope so

Outside the Embajadores de Jesús migrant shelter in Tijuana, people plan and hope for a new life ahead. (Toya Sarno Jordan for NPR)

TIJUANA, Mexico — My parents had never heard of the American dream when they came to the United States from Mexico in the early '80s, but they wanted what it supposedly offered. They were after a better life with more work opportunities.

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