The Los Angeles Times featured a story about African Migrants attempting to reach the southern US border to seek asylum. According the the report, over 4,779 Africans have were detained by Mexican authorities in the first seven months of 2019.
Migrants told the LATimes:
“We just want to get out of here, and arrive to a better place,” said Rubi Tmamba, 17, a slim, towering native of Congo who hopes to enroll in a university and study international relations. “If not the United States, then maybe Canada. But we have come this far in search of this dream. We are not going back now.”