2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Génesis Martínez, an 18-year-old Honduran mother, and her baby César, just two months old, are part of the migrant caravan that seeks a better life in the United States.
The teenage mother, who lived in Mexico and has been working since she was 14 years old, joined the caravan in Tapachula when her son was just three weeks old. I do it so that in the future he does not have to go asking, does not have to walk in those things. He has always been the engine to continue, although I know I am taking risks. I just ask God to help me,”he told Here and Now (Univision).
The baby's father abandoned her, so Genesis is a single mom. After giving birth, she stopped going to work for a few days and her boss lowered her salary. "Instead of raising her salary, they lowered it," said her cousin Wilmer, 17, who accompanied her on the journey to the United States with the baby.
"I have always been with her, I have not left her alone," added the relative.
César is the smallest migrant in the caravan, which includes about 200 mothers and children. The group is already at the United States border, where travelers will surrender to immigration to request asylum.
Although traveling with the caravan was a decision full of dangers, Genesis assures that he did it thinking of giving Caesar a better chance of living in the United States, where he wants to work to support his baby.
“Here in the caravan as much as there are good people there are bad people. I found a lady who said to me: 'You are going to kill your son, to make a stone grave for your son. If you got her out of where you were, it's because you want to see her dead. ' It hurt a lot, it hurt a lot. I don't want that, "concluded the young mother. "Diosito better than anyone knows that I went out of necessity."
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