Arriving from Texas, the four migrant families from Central and South America, with children as young as 2, spent 90 days in the Union Rescue Mission in Skid Row. Then, told they'd have to pay rent they didn't have, they formed an impromptu community in a tent encampment two blocks away.
When the big green sanitation trucks rumbled up, eight of the 10 children living in the Skid Row encampment were away at school, easing the stress on the four sets of parents as they stuffed their belongings into plastic bags and storage boxes and dismantled their tents. Sanitation workers told them they couldn't keep a canopy that sheltered their cooking area or the plastic pallets they used to keep their bedding off the cold concrete.
It is the first significant escalation of Miskito migration to the U.S. since the Nicaraguan civil war of the 1980s. They departed from the wooden hut they shared with a relative in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, in October, two weeks after the government jailed Brooklyn Rivera, an advocate and elected representative of the Miskito nations. Apiñas said there are times she feels the journey was all for naught. 'This is not what I wanted my kids to experience,' she said.
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