Newsmen Cedar Attanasio, El Paso, Texas, and Philip Marcelo, Boston, traced a little-noticed surge in Brazilians crossing into the U.S. Leveraging AP’s footprint from Brazil to Texas to Boston, the deeply reported story documented an astonishing number of Brazilians pouring through El Paso. Hundreds of them had ridden with a single cab driver who Attanasio found by canvassing taxi stands at border bridges, while in Boston, Marcelo found a recently-arrived mechanic, adding texture to the story. https://bit.ly/2PG3jh7
From Brazil to Boston, tracing a surge of Brazilian migrants
Helison Alvarenga, of Brazil, and his 6-year-old son David leave a reception table after speaking with volunteers at the New England Community Center, in Stoughton, Mass., Dec. 4, 2019. Alvarenga, a 26-year-old mechanic from the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, arrived in Massachusetts about four months ago after crossing the Mexican border at Juarez with his wife and son. The family was applying for new Brazilian passports, which Alvarenga says were seized by border officials.
AP Photo / Steven Senne