Migrant families lament children being left out of classrooms
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October 18, 2026
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For seven years, Genesis Mendez and her common-law husband, Antonio Escalona, have made Trinidad their home after fleeing Venezuela for a better life.
When they arrived in 2019, their daughter Ashley was only three.
With her daughter now ten, Mendez has been fighting tooth and nail to get her firstborn into a primary school.
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