New details have emerged about the path that led a group of migrants to Fresno.
19 Venezuelan migrants are now nearly four thousand miles from their homeland.
“We can’t be in Venezuela. There is corruption, there’s no work, no employment, or options to study,” said one anonymous asylum seeker.
Right now, they’re calling Fresno home.
Action News spoke to some of the men on Monday afternoon outside their temporary shelter.
They didn’t want to show their faces on camera, but they told us they were looking for work.
“We came this way to have something better and help our family get ahead in life,” the asylum seeker continues.
In El Paso, the group had three options: Chicago, Denver, or New York.
They each chose the 10-hour bus ride to Denver, where they stayed in a shelter overnight for several weeks, but the cold winter weather was unbearable.
So, they decided to come to Fresno.
Some of the first migrants arrived three weeks ago.
“We have been living in the streets with hunger. We haven’t had clothes,” the anonymous asylum seeker mentioned.