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Valery Sanchez, 19, fled Honduras in February 2020 after strangers beat her and left her for dead because of her gender identity. She spent the next eight months at the makeshift camp in Matamoros, but fled after other Central American migrants harassed and assaulted her and her transgender friends. Sanchez never doubted her decision to leave until earlier this month. President Joe Biden’s administration allowed nearly all of the 700 migrants at the camp to cross into the United States.