Use “fear and suffocation” so that migrants leave

Jessica Xantomila and Jared Laureles

La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, April 19, 2025, p. 3

The United States Government Try to push against the wall to regular and irregular migrants, to Force that they feel so much fear and suffocation that they are forced to leavecivil organizations agreed, drama that, they said, is exacerbated by the measure of President Donald Trump to revoke all stay permits granted through the CBP One application, a system to request asylum in that country.

Alianza Américas said that 985 thousand applicants for international protection managed to enter this way since 2023, including Mexicans, but it is estimated that 200 thousand would not have been eligible to be asylee and there are still many more that remain in process, with cutting appointments by 2026.

Together with helping them to succeed, he stressed that many of the foreigners who would be forced to leave that country, including families with children, not only suffered violence in their nations of origin, to which they cannot return, but were victims of kidnapping, trafficking and sexual aggressions on the immigration route, as in the jungle of Darién – between Colombia and Panama – and in their passage through Mexico.

Daniela, Venezuelan, is one of those affected. The young woman received an email from the National Security Department (DHS) last April 11 that begins with the message: It’s time for you to leave the United Statesin which he warns him that his stay permit granted under Title 8 is canceled and the urge to leave the country immediately.

The DHS warns that if it does not leave US territory, it will be subject to possible police measures (fines and sanctions) that will result in their expulsion from the country And that any benefit you receive, such as work authorization, will also be canceled.

In an interview from Florida, his current residence, Daniela said that with that email the fear was installed in his life and that of many of the Venezuelans, Colombians, Mexican and Central Americans who legally entered. The confidence of being sure in that country, he said, was lost, regardless of whether a judge revokes the measure launched by Trump for two weeks.

I saw how those who arrived from wet here lived in fear of grabbing them, but I thought that if that happened to me I had my papers to prove that I was legal. Now I can’t defend myself like this, better one tries not to leave.

Therefore, he assured that the viacrucis he suffered for more than five months, since he left Colombia, on July 19, 2024, It is not worth suffering from entering the United States. You see how homes break, you sell everything and come back with nothing.

She was one of the last ones who managed to enter with CBP One, last January 15, just five days before Trump assumed the presidency and canceled that system. But to get to that date he was about to be kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, where armed people demanded $ 500 By floor collection.

It was also retained a couple of times in Chiapas: “The Darién jungle is very hard, but Chiapas is almost impossible to cross for migrants. I spent a thousand dollars to get from Tapachula to Mexico City, the same amount I spent to cross six countries: Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. Money in Mexico THE MAÑA and police ”.

He reflected that despite this it is not life to be in the United States with fear of being arrested and that is why several have considered returning to their countries or other nations: I’m going to return to Mexico at the end of the year. I will not wait for my cut in court for February 10.

Dulce Guzmán, from Américas Alliance, based in Chicago, described as Inhuman Trump’s measure. He removes protection of a population that has done everything that the narrative says: they waited for their turn, applied (legally) and went through very rigorous processes to ensure that they had no criminal records.

Gladys Cañas, helping them to succeed in Matamoros, admitted that there are already migrants who began to return to their countries, because they do not resist persecution: One of them returned along the border of Mexico and tried to travel by plane to Venezuela, but could not because he has no passport. It took two months to reach his country because he left in truck and walking. It is also a viacrucis to return.