By Dudley Althaus | Edited by Dianne Solis & Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY — With late morning traffic surging, Yudelis Ferreira slips out of the migrant shelter with her three young children, heading for another day hawking popsicles in the Mexican capital’s hard heart.
This has been Ferreira’s life for months now, her family’s plans for a future in the United States scuttled with the arrival of the Trump administration.
Like unknown thousands of other migrants — mostly Latin Americans but also from Asia and Africa — Ferreira and her children find themselves marooned on the migrant trail, well and permanently short of the goal.
“We are stuck,” Ferreira said, putting a succinct end to two years of migrating since leaving Maracaibo, the sweaty city that buckles Venezuela’s stagnant oil b