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Lorena Figueroa in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez

‘She gave me hope’: puppet Little Amal publicizes migrant plight on US-Mexico border

Little Amal at the Plaza de la Mexicanidad in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on 26 October.
Little Amal at the Plaza de la Mexicanidad in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on 26 October. Photograph: José Luis González/Reuters

After two years of walking halfway around the world searching for her mother and a new home, a 10-year-old Syrian girl made it to the US-Mexico border.

She reached gate 36 of the port of entry in the border fence, where crowds of asylum seekers and refugees have crossed into the US.

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