Their food ran out. They cooked leaves. One African family suffered disease, encountered bodies and slept in the jungle in their harrowing journey to seek asylum in the U.S.
In this June 21, 2019, photo, Blaise Matshieba Nduluyele pauses as he speaks outside the Expo Center in Portland, Maine, about the dangerous journey he and his family made in order to seek asylum in the United States. He and his family have been provided temporary shelter in Portland along with hundreds of other African migrants, mostly from Congo and Angola.
“I really didn’t think I would survive. It was really, truly terrifying,” said Nduluyele, now at a shelter with his wife and three children in Maine. Before the massacre, Nduluyele worked as a vendor at a marketplace after a lack of money put his medical training on hold. “All of a sudden, a group showed up with machetes and guns, and they just killed everyone. At that point, I had to go,” he told The Associated Press.
Hundreds of Africans have made the same choice, as have thousands of other Central American immigrants heading for the U.S. border. In the spring, 500 African migrants were found walking in separate groups after splashing across the Rio Grande into Texas. Nduluyele tried to keep a brave face for his family but feared the worst. “I asked myself if we would get out alive,” he said.
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