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As legal ways for crossing the southern US border remain closed, more people are choosing to swim across the Rio Grande River into Texas. Local media in the area have reported dozens of drownings in the river this year. But some migrants in Nicaragua are getting ready for the challenge. The World’s Tibisay Zea has the story.