![]() ![]() He spent another one and a half months in Mexico, bouncing from shelter to shelter, struggling to maintain a halāl diet and keep to his daily cycle of prayers. Along the way, Hamza said he saw dead bodies hidden in the bush, witnessed multiple assaults, and suffered the pangs of frequent hunger without adequate access to halal food. It took Hamza another three, arduous months to make his way by foot, truck, train, and bus across the Amazon and then through Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala to Mexico. ![]() Hamza left Ghana for Brazil the day after his only daughter was born, which also happened to be Eid al-Fitr. It’s been a long, laborious journey to get this far. On the other side of la linea, Hamza hopes to claim asylum in the United States. Sitting on the back of a white pick-up truck with other Ghanaians, Hamza and his fellow countrymen are within eyesight of the rusted steel bollard fencing that demarcates the dividing line between San Ysidro, California and Tijuana, Mexico. As Hamza starts tellling his story, tears roll slowly down his cheeks. ![]()
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