Many of the Haitian migrants who recently entered Texas had taken refuge for years in Chile. Some said they faced increasing joblessness, poverty and hostility there. A migrant camp in Lampa, Chile, ...

But in May, she, her two children, and 20 relatives and friends embarked upon a perilous, 4,700-mile journey north to the United States, taking a gamble, and hoping for the best. “Things became too ...