CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Virginia, an 18-year-old from Guatemala who is seeking asylum in the United States, had just one form of identification on her long journey north: her birth certificate.
Now, the teenager waits in a shelter in a Mexican border town while her U.S. asylum case is decided - minus the birth certificate.
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