Melanie Rolo Gonzalez, right, and her sister Merlyn, pose for a photo with their medical student uniforms as they pack supplies for their journey to the U.S., in their home in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. The sisters' voyage is one that hundreds of thousands of Cubans have made over the last two years in a historic wave of migration. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
January 30, 2023
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2 Cuban sisters' 4,200-mile journey to the US and a new life
Over the past two years, American authorities have detained Cubans nearly 300,000 times on the border with Mexico