FORT WORTH, Texas: One woman's journey to and across the US border | Immigration | McClatchy DC

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Edilsa Cano was fleeing sexual assault, kidnapping and death threats - all from her own family - when she left her village in Guatemala at 16.

Now 21, she sees her own desperation in the tens of thousands of Central American children, some as young as 4, flooding the U.S. border with Mexico. Border authorities are scrambling to shelter the children, and President Barack Obama is looking for ways to deport them faster to cope with what has been called a humanitarian crisis.

Cano said it took her about a month to make the dangerous trip from Central America to the U.S.

Before the 1,000-mile journey was over, she would sleep, six to a bed, with strangers also migrating through Mexico, run away from a violent coyote, or human smuggler, in Arizona and then wander, lost in the desert and looking for help.

"I don't really know how I got here," Cano said in disbelief. "God is with every single child that crosses the border."

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