People congregate after a boat carrying migrants from Mexico shipwrecks off the coast of San Diego, California, May 2, 2021. Mikael Jacobson/Handout via REUTERS
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As the 40-foot cabin cruiser lurched for 12 hours on the Pacific on its dead-of-night journey to California from Tijuana, a Mexican migrant named Eberardo tried to keep the panicked passengers' spirits up.
"Think of God and what you most love: a child, your mother," Eberardo, 36, who was trying to get back to his family in the Midwest after being deported to Mexico, remembers saying. "Let that give you strength."
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