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Stuck In Tijuana, Many Central American Migrants Opt For A Job

The Mexican government, faced with thousands of destitute migrants on their side of the U.S.-Mexico border, is inviting them to apply for jobs in Tijuana.
Central American migrants line up to apply for jobs at a job fair in Tijuana, Mexico. More than two thousand migrants have applied for a one-year humanitarian visa that would allow them to hold jobs legally in Mexico.

In the mud-filled sports complex where some 6,200 Central American migrants have been mired near the U.S. border in Tijuana, a 20-year-old Honduran named Josue Pineda awaits his turn for an open-air cold water shower. He's thinking about his next move, given the near impossibility of realizing his goal of crossing the border into the United States.

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