"They shut the door on us": Venezuelans ask Mexico for humanitarian flights home

FILE PHOTO - Migrants from Venezuela walk in a caravan to the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of others are stranded following a deal to expel Venezuelan migrants crossing into the United States after the new U.S.-Mexico migrant policy, in Huixtla, Mexico October 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Torres

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ana Villalobos remembers what she went through to get from Venezuela to the United States: going hungry, sleeping in the open and crossing rivers and forests with her young son.

She cries upon reflecting on the journey, knowing it bore no fruit. Now, Villalobos is asking for a humanitarian flight to return to her homeland.