From Brazil to Boston, tracing a surge of Brazilian migrants

By Cedar Attanasio and Philip Marcelo

Newsmen Cedar Attanasio, El Paso, Texas, and Philip Marcelo, Boston, traced a little-noticed surge in Brazilians crossing into the U.S. Leveraging AP’s footprint from Brazil to Texas to Boston, the deeply reported story documented an astonishing number of Brazilians pouring through El Paso. Hundreds of them had ridden with a single cab driver who Attanasio found by canvassing taxi stands at border bridges, while in Boston, Marcelo found a recently-arrived mechanic, adding texture to the story. https://bit.ly/2PG3jh7