内容摘要：A colony of sea lions rest at Playa Mann on San Cristobal Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)

A colony of sea lions rest at Playa Mann on San Cristobal Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)

They have been sleeping on a blow-up mattress on top of folded up cardboard boxes so they don’t get soaked when rain enters through the gaps in the shelter’s flimsy roof and soaks the floor. Morazan has been bitten by bed bugs and wears a diaper when the shelter’s bathrooms become so fetid they make her want to vomit. The couple worked briefly collecting recyclables at a dump.“We hope the United States opens its door because we won’t last here,” Juarez said.

One night a fellow migrant sleeping in a tent at the shelter was struck in the neck by a stray bullet from a shootout that erupted in the ramshackle neighborhood.“There are cartels here and a lot of crime,” Juarez said.Hondurans Ana Morazan applies makeup inside her tent a migrant shelter Thursday, June 30, 2022, in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Hondurans Ana Morazan applies makeup inside her tent a migrant shelter Thursday, June 30, 2022, in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Hondurans Ana Morazan, left, and her boyfriend Fredi Juarez, walk back to a migrant shelter Thursday, June 30, 2022, in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Hondurans Ana Morazan, left, and her boyfriend Fredi Juarez, walk back to a migrant shelter Thursday, June 30, 2022, in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Morazan fights to keep her spirits up. They took in a stray Chihuahua and named him Jabibi. She has tried to dress up with clothing donated to the shelter, but the competition among the migrants has been fierce and often the best stuff is claimed within seconds of being unloaded.“Sure, anything can happen anywhere you live. Your house can burn down from an electric fire. Anything can happen,” Ellie Holden said. “But we got to the point where we wanted to mitigate risk that we could.”

Soraya Holden climbs a tree with her parents in the background, Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Proctor, Vt. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Soraya Holden climbs a tree with her parents in the background, Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Proctor, Vt. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Their new home hasn’t come without challenges. The dairy farm hasn’t operated since the 1990s and needs lots of work. The skyrocketing cost of construction materials has slowed renovations. Uninsulated parts of the house can fall into the single digits in winter.But they feel blessed they found a new life. They have a small herd of goats to clear away overgrown vegetation, and they sell eggs from their chickens. They also produce cut flowers for bouquets and heirloom vegetables from their expanding garden. Soon, they hope to make maple syrup and eventually build guest cabins in the woods.