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Suddenly, countries who sent millions of their people to the United States are now bracing for impact, as they fear the tsunami is about to come back their direction after President-elect Donald Trump has threatened mass deportations.
From The Hill: Now, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office in January with a promise of carrying out mass deportations, Honduras and other Central American countries people have fled for generations are bracing for a potential influx of vulnerable migrants — a situation they are ill-prepared to handle.
Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, which have the largest number of people living illegally in the U.S., after Mexico, could be among the first and most heavily impacted by mass deportations, said Jason Houser, former Immigration & Customs Enforcement chief of staff in the Biden administration.
Because countries like Venezuela refuse to accept deportation flights from the U.S., Houser suggests that the Trump administration may prioritize the deportation of “the most vulnerable” migrants from those countries who have removal orders but no criminal record, in an effort to rapidly increase deportation numbers.
“Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans need to be very, very nervous because (Trump officials) are going to press the bounds of the law,” said Houser.
“We don’t have the capacity” to take so many people, said Antonio García, Honduras’ deputy foreign minister. “There’s very little here for deportees.” People who return, he said, “are the last to be taken care of.”
Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies announced earlier this month that many people staying in a migrant camp in Mexico told him they are giving up and going home, since Trump won the election.
Most everyone I interviewed in this Mexico City migrant camp told me they’re giving up, going home after Trump is inaugurated and cancels the CBP One phone app parole program. Back to Venezuela. Back to Colombia. Some say they’ll settle permanently in Mexico. More to come. pic.twitter.com/OrhjKBdcFe
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) December 3, 2024
However, border patrol Oscar El Blue warns that the Biden administration is still bringing massive amounts of migrants into the US daily through the CBP One app.
🚨CBPONE is flying migrants all the way to
The Mexican por of entry in Matamoros border to Brownsville Texas🚨@BenBergquam @RealAmVoice @RealTomHoman @BensmanTodd @rangerholton @stevegrubershow @bannon_2024 @JackPosobiec @mtgreenee @TBatesNews @Bannons_WarRoom @RyanMattaMedia… pic.twitter.com/joaGj8jqyr— Oscar El Blue (@Oscarelblue) December 11, 2024
As Trump threatens mass deportations, Central America braces for an influx of vulnerable migrants https://t.co/bwVDeRcE3a
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) December 16, 2024
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