Between hopelessness and courage, this is how Venezuelan migrants react to the measures taken by the new government of Donald Trump, which is suddenly preventing passage across the southern border to the United States. The emergency declaration has been accompanied by the closure of the CBP One application, which fills migrants with anger.
“In this shelter we have more than 100 Venezuelan, Honduran, Guatemalan, Ecuadorian and Mexican migrants, and although we already expected this suspension of CBPOne, it continues to fall like a cold bath,” said Angélica Macías Mejía, director of the Casa Shelter of Mercy and of All Nations, located in Mexico City, in statements to The Broken Chair.
Macías maintains a boarding-type shelter, where migrants arrive with procedures in progress, such as the CBP One application, or legal cases that need advice.
How do Venezuelan migrants react to the measures taken by Trump?
Jormary and Jesus They found out on Monday afternoon that the new Trump government canceled the CBP One permit. Given the news, the Venezuelan couple decided to return. It has been a year and four months since they left Venezuela.
“We plan to return to our country no later than March, at the end of the month,” confirmed Jesús, one of the hundreds of migrants who have settled in the Plaza de La Soledad, in the La Merced neighborhood, in Mexico City. .
Jormary and Jesús left Venezuela a year and four months ago. Photo: The Broken Chair
María de los Ángeles is also Venezuelan. He says he will enter the United States either way.
“Whatever the case, I’m going to pass, I’m going to try it with my children, I have three children, the goal is the sameis to get to the United States, for my children to study, for them to be able to have their medication, because I have a child with a congenital malformation and my dream is to be able to operate on him,” he indicated.
The woman works in one of the parcel companies in La Merced.
María de los Ángeles, Venezuelan migrant. Photo: The Broken Chair
Other Venezuelans in Ciudad Juárez
Margelis Tinoco, 48 years old, has spent seven months in Ciudad Juárez, a town on the border with the United States, waiting for an appointment to enter. The woman is of Colombian origin. Her husband, 52, and her 13-year-old son are Venezuelan.
“Just when we thought everything was accomplished, everything came crashing down,” he said through tears to The Diary of Juarez.
“My God, my God,” he repeated over and over again.
Freddy Echeverría, another Venezuelan, 43 years old, spent all his savings to attend the appointment that was canceled.
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