Panama City
CNN
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She asked to be identified only as “Ambo,” out of fear of being recognized back in her home country.
“Life is very difficult for me,” she told CNN from a school-turned-shelter on a humidly hot day in Panama City, Panama.
Over the ambient noise of blade fans attempting to cool the large room, she explained she left her native country of Cameroon due to “political issues,” fearing that she would either be “sentenced dead” or spend the rest of her life in prison if she stayed.
She remembers arriving at the US-Mexico border on January 23 – three days after US President Trump’s inauguration – after trekking…
