It was 5 August when Jenny Bohórquez, 43, and her 12-year-old son Danny left Ecuador to make the journey north after an extortion gang threatened to kill them both for reporting its protection racket to the police.
Their new home is more than 2,800 miles away in Passaic, New Jersey, where she stays with cousins and works as a manicurist at a beauty parlour for mostly Latino clients while she tries to learn English.
Escaping to the relative peace of New Jersey took a perilous six-day crossing on foot of the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama, then more than a week travelling to the Mexican border and crossing the Rio Grande into Texas.
