News reports from Latin America indicate that migrants hoping to cross into the United States fear Donald Trump will win.
There have been reports from Ecuador to Spain about how migrants will react to the November contest.
Trump has been much tougher and more outspoken about how he wants to secure the US-Mexico border, while Vice President Kamala Harris recently proposed supporting the wall after previously calling it un-American.
“Immigrants see risks with Trump’s return,” was the title of a Mexican article published on September 20.
Another referenced Ecuadorian migrants’ desire to see Vice President Kamala Harris win, whom they describe as making them feel more “calm” that they could stay in the United States longer.
Democratic presidential candidate and US Vice President Kamala Harris tours the border wall with Border Patrol agents and other personnel (not pictured) near Tucson in Douglas, Arizona, USA, on September 27, 2024. It was her second visit as vice president.
The Mexican exit The Impartial wrote: ‘A potential victory for Republican candidate Donald Trump in the race for the presidency of the United States would toughen immigration procedures, said specialist in Immigration Law and International Law, Josefina Orozco.’
“Immigrants who find themselves in the United States with a status that could lead to their deportation” may then become “vulnerable,” he continued.
Harris has supported positions such as ignoring deportation requirements and has been against what she has called the “un-American” wall between the United States and Mexico.
However, during a trip to the border in Arizona on Friday, the Democratic presidential candidate promised to spend millions on the barrier if elected.
Still, Harris and Biden have overseen the largest influx of illegal immigration in years, with about 10 million encounters with immigrants expected by the end of this year, according to the House Homeland Security Committee.
A report from Mexican media El Imparcial highlights migrants’ concerns about Trump
Spanish outlet Diario Público reported over the summer in Tijuana, Mexico, that migrants there were concerned that Trump would end the Biden-Harris administration’s migrant screening phone app, CBP One, which can help facilitate flights. to the United States.
The Ecuadorian news agency La República wrote that citizens there shared their “fear” of a Trump victory in November.
Migrants wait in line to resolve their status in the city of Tapachula, Mexico, September 23, 2024. Mexico’s southern border is experiencing a new wave of migration as a month has passed since the new US rule allowing a Asylum appointment through ‘CBP One’ Application to be processed from the border of Mexico with Central America
spanish exit Public Diary reported over the summer in Tijuana, Mexico, that migrants there were concerned that Trump would end the Biden-Harris administration’s migrant screening phone app, CBP One, which can help facilitate flights to the U.S. .
The app has been helpful in facilitating the entry of tens of thousands of immigrants into the US.
At times, 30,000 immigrants a month have been allowed to fly to the United States from select countries using the app.
“Concern is growing among migrants at the US-Mexico border about a possible Trump victory,” the report says.
Migrants from around the world enter Arizona from Mexico
Former President Donald Trump visits the border in the Montezuma Pass area of Cochise County in Arizona in August to discuss border security.
Ecuadorian agency The Republicwrote on September 1, people “stranded on the border with the United States and Mexico” and immigrants who have managed to reach the United States are worried “that their trip will be interrupted” due to Trump’s policies.
They reported that these migrants who are inside and heading towards the US feel “calm” that with Harris they could remain in the country a little longer than under the new Trump administration, which ordered the deportation of a million migrants so soon as I set foot in the White country. Home.’
Additionally, a July report Associated Press It was discovered that immigrants in Mexico who wanted to cross illegally into the United States wanted to get there before the election.
These immigrants began running “out of fear that the border would close in the event of a Trump victory,” he said.