Migrants want Kamala Harris to beat Donald Trump, Latin American reports claim
News reports from Latin America show that migrants hoping to enter the US are concerned that Donald Trump will win.
There is reporting from Ecuador to Spain about how migrants will respond to the fighting in November.
Trump has been much tougher and more outspoken about how he wants to secure the US-Mexico border, while Vice President Kamala Harris has recently suggested support for the wall after previously calling it anti-American.
“Migrants see risks in Trump’s return,” is the title of a Mexican article published on September 20.
Another referenced Ecuadorian migrants’ desire to see Vice President Kamala Harris win, making them feel more “reassured” that they could stay in the US longer.
Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris tours with Border Patrol agents and other personnel (not pictured) along the border wall, near Tucson, in Douglas, Arizona, U.S., September 27, 2024. It was her second visit as vice president
The Mexican outlet El Indifferent wrote: ‘A potential victory of Republican candidate Donald Trump in the race for the presidency of the United States would tighten immigration procedures, said specialist in immigration law and international law Josefina Orozco.’
“Immigrants who are in the United States and have a status that could lead to their deportation” may then become “vulnerable,” the report continued.
Harris has supported positions such as ignoring deportation requirements and opposes what she has called the “un-American” wall between the US and Mexico.
However, during a trip to the border in Arizona on Friday, the Democratic presidential candidate pledged to spend millions on the barrier if elected.
Still, Harris and Biden have overseen the largest influx of illegal immigration in years, with some 10 million encounters with migrants expected later this year, according to the House Homeland Security Committee.
A report from Mexican outlet El Imparcial highlighting migrants’ concerns about Trump
Spanish newspaper Diario Publico reported last summer in Tijuana, Mexico, that migrants there were concerned that Trump would end the Biden-Harris administration’s migrant screening phone app — CBP One — that can help facilitate flights to the US.
The Ecuadorian agency La Republica wrote that citizens there shared their “fear” about 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 an asylum appointment through the ‘CBP One ‘. ‘application to be processed from the Mexican border with Central America
Spanish outlet Diario Publico reported last summer in Tijuana, Mexico, that migrants there were concerned that Trump would end the Biden-Harris administration’s migrant screening phone app — CBP One — that can help facilitate flights to the U.S.
The app has helped facilitate tens of thousands of migrants to the US
Using the app, sometimes 30,000 migrants per month were allowed to fly to the US from selected countries.
“Concern is growing among migrants at the US-Mexico border about a possible Trump victory,” the report said.
Migrants from all over the world enter Arizona from Mexico
Former President Donald Trump visits the border in the Montezuma Pass area of Arizona’s Cochise County in August to discuss border security
Ecuadorian agency The Republicwrote on September 1, individuals “stranded at the US-Mexico border” and the migrants who have reached the US are concerned “that their journey will be cut short” under Trump’s policies.
They reported these migrants in and on their way to the US, they felt ‘reassured’ that with Harris they could stay in the country a little longer than under the new Trump administration, which ordered the deportation of a million migrants as soon as he entered the White House. House.’
Moreover, a July report from the Associated press found that migrants in Mexico who wanted to enter the US illegally wanted to get there before the election.
The rush for these migrants had begun “out of fear that the border would be closed in the event of a Trump victory,” the report said.