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Todd Bensman, an immigration expert with the Center for Immigration Studies, has published an article in the Daily Mail on what he has found inside the migrant camps in Mexico.
Bensman writes:
President-elect Donald Trump won’t take office for another five weeks, but his election is already causing a sea change in America’s illegal immigration crisis.
In sprawling migrant camps across Mexico City, people are giving up their plans to cross into the United States and are instead planning to settle in Mexico or begin the long trek back home.
‘I’m just going to give up and go back to Venezuela,’ said a woman in one of the squalid encampments, where thousands of migrants have constructed tents with tarps and scrap material.
President-elect Donald Trump won’t take office for another five weeks, but his election is already causing a sea change in America’s illegal immigration crisis. In sprawling migrant camps across Mexico City, people are giving up their plans to cross into the United States and are instead planning to settle in Mexico or begin the long trek back home.
‘I’m just going to give up and go back to Venezuela,’ said a woman in one of the squalid encampments, where thousands of migrants have constructed tents with tarps and scrap material.
Bensman explains that since January 2023, the Biden administration has allowed a whopping 771,000 migrants – or about 1,600 per day – to enter the U.S. via the “CBP One App,” which was a program the administration created to allow people to “legally” cross the border.
The incoming Trump administration has stated that program will be ended on Day One.
One of the migrants waiting in Mexico have heard the program will be ending, and say they are considering going back home if they aren’t able to get in before January 20.
“To the Trump team, these prospective ‘self-deportation’ cases offer some proof that the President-elect’s border security plan may already be working as intended. Now, they hope word of this deterrent effect will spread to the home cities, towns and villages of potential future migrants and dissuade them from making the dangerous trip,” Bensman wrote.
However, others declare they’re not going back, and will either try to sneak across the border later, or just seek asylum in Mexico.
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) December 10, 2024
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