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Posted Jun 29, 2022, 5:38 am Nathan Collins Cronkite News TAPACHULA, Mexico – Martin Nore sells odds and ends – baseball hats, a stock pot, a blend...

July 4, 2022
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Posted Jun 29, 2022, 5:38 am Nathan Collins Cronkite News TAPACHULA, Mexico – Martin Nore sells odds and ends – baseball hats, a stock pot, a blender – in front of a memorial dedicated to Benito Juarez, Mexico's first Indigenous president, while he waits for documents that would allow him to continue his migration north.The Haitian's journey to the United States has been stalled in southern Mexico for nine months. To survive while waiting for his Mexican papers, Nore is selling what he can without a permit, which draws the scrutiny of government inspectors and the ire of local vendors, who must pay for business permits.

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