Jared Laureles
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, December 29, 2024, p. 4
Fear, stress and desperation is the feeling that permeates among the migrants who live in the irregular camps of Mexico City in the face of threats and extreme measures
that Donald Trump will apply starting next January 20, when he will assume the presidency of the United States again.
It’s very scary; There is fear and disappointment because after having crossed seven countries, the Darién jungle and rivers, they cut off our illusion with a single slash
laments Brenda, a Venezuelan, who reproaches that international organizations do nothing in the face of the Republican’s repeated threats to separate families and use military bases and planes to accelerate the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
In the settlement located on 100 meter avenue, near the North Bus Station, he reflects on the imminent mass deportations that Trump will carry out during his second term, and expresses his rejection of these actions, because Society is there to unite families, not separate them, and that is what the United Nations should focus on
.
On the verge of tears, Brenda comments that at this camp she was reunited with her son after three years of not seeing him. He arrived in Mexico six months ago and has not been able to obtain his CBP One asylum application appointment in the United States.
On the other hand, he said, she has been in national territory for two months and a few days ago she got it, although she recalled that she was on the verge of losing it. I had become stressed and desperate because of everything I have experienced. So, I wanted to cross; I grabbed my son and went to the train tracks to see if he would deliver me there, but on the way, arriving at the Coca-Cola (in Querétaro) my phone got a signal, I had an email and I got the appointment. We had to run back to the city, we had four hours left to accept it
account.
Brenda has to report to the San Ysidro port of entry on January 4, so she will begin the trip on December 31; He feels happiness, but at the same time sadness, because he says that once again he will have to separate from his teenage son.
▲ Undocumented people spend hours in their ranchitos of wood awaiting a response to his request for asylum in the United States through the CBP One application.Photo Victor Camacho
My idea was to welcome the New Year here, with my son, but I have to leave on December 31; It was the cheapest flight I found. That’s hard, I have to continue, leave it here and wait to see if he gets an appointment before January 20
he expresses.
outside of your ranchito –made with scraps of wood– and sitting on an old armchair, the Venezuelan woman indicates that with the support of her godson, a niece and a neighbor from her homeland she has managed to raise more than 4 thousand pesos to buy her plane ticket, because “We are very afraid to travel in the buses”.
He points out that once he crosses into the United States his purpose is to work and reunite with his son. Given the threats from the next president of that country, he hoped that there would be counterweights
because several states They do not support the mass deportation that he wants to do
.
In another of the wooden houses, Henry spends the day locked up to make the hours less burdensome
. The LGBTI+ rights activist left Colombia due to violence in his territory and arrived in Mexico almost seven months ago; One later settled in this camp, where people from different countries, including girls and boys, spend the day looking at their cell phones, listening to music and washing the few clothes they have worn on their journey. He, like most Salvadorans, Hondurans, Ecuadorians and other nationalities, has not been lucky enough to get his CBP One appointment.
However, he maintains his goal of reaching the United States and is confident that despite the Republican’s threats, there are Democratic governors who support migrants and recognize their contribution to the economy and development of that country.
