{"id":43347,"date":"2020-07-27T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43347"},"modified":"2020-07-27T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:24:28","slug":"journey-to-the-us-mexico-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43347","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the US-Mexico border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"62.554934823091\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thousands of Central Americans brave the long and often dangerous journey to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2017\/03\/mexico-border-wall-stake-170327135349790.html\">US-Mexico border<\/a> every year. They have escaped violence or poverty\u00a0<span>&#8211;<\/span> often both.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They have found strength in numbers travelling in what became known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/news\/2018\/10\/started-migrant-caravan-now-181027101755927.html\">migrant caravans<\/a>, seeking asylum and a better life north of home. But these caravans have become flashpoints in the fierce debate over immigration in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For a year and a half, correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/profile\/john-holman.html\">John Holman<\/a> walked with Central Americans, witnessing first-hand the cycle of hope and despair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Central Americans brave the long and often dangerous journey to the US-Mexico border every year. They have escaped violence or poverty\u00a0&#8211; often both. They have found strength in numbers travelling in what became known as migrant caravans, seeking asylum and a better life north of home. But these caravans have become flashpoints in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}