This is the dorm where I slept. This is my home today. I can spend the night here and I can be safe. We are in a safe place, we’re not sleeping out on the street or by the railroad. It is very difficult to be out on the street and on your own. Here at least you are with others and you are safe.
Well, we’re all Hondurans, we all met on the road so we became friends because we come from the same place. Who would have thought that we would be meeting all these people from Honduras? When you leave there, you leave thinking that you are going North, but you don’t know who you are going to
meet on the road, and you meet all these others from Guatemala, from Honduras, from Mexico…
What is most difficult is finding who to go with, who can be a trustable guide. Anybody can say, “Yes, I’ll take you.” But then they leave you stranded on the way or turn you in.
Lo que es más difícil es encontrar con quién ir, quién es un guía confiable. Cualquiera puede decir “Sí, yo te llevo”, pero después te dejan tirado en el camino o te entregan a la migra.
What do you fear of crossing over?
Oh, it’s really the thieves and the gangs. That’s what we’re afraid of. It’s not so much the cold or the heat, it’s the crooks, the thieves… because we can fight against nature, but to fight against the crooks and thieves is a lot more difficult. You can find water for the desert, but you can’t really do much when you have a band of crooks that comes on you with guns.
¿Qué te da miedo de cruzar?
So I’ve seen all the pictures and all the things you went through yesterday since we talked in the evening and this morning. So how do you feel? If you were doing a movie of your day, this day in your life, what do you feel?
So what does this picture tell you?
So this is just the place where the buses go out and this is the patio or warehouse or something.
And do you want to take one of those buses and go somewhere?
Question, so when I asked you to take pictures of where your home is now and this is the dorm that you take pictures of?
Yes, this is it; this is the dorm where I slept. This is my home today, this dorm.
So, this is the place that to you is your home now, so how does it feel?
So how do you feel about spending the night in this place that is not your home?
Well, once you’re finally there you’re okay, you relax because you’re safe, it’s in a safe place and nobody can hurt you. And then you can sleep, okay. The only thing is if you try to make noise or start a problem they kick you out.
How do you feel that this is your home these days?
So what do you feel about waiting here?
Then this one is inside again and this building is a bit darker, but you can see the TV and here it’s really full because it’s a lot of people and almost all of us were already there. We can see, we watched TV from four o’clock when we get there to eight o’clock. Then at eight o’clock they take us to the dorms. Before that we cannot go to the dorms.
So you sit around in this place between four and eight?