Leave in Lurch: The seekers respond to the CBP cancellation of TROMP | Donald Trump News

Sister Maria Tilo Claaro, director of Casa del Magagantity, explained that the mood in her shelter has turned into sadness and anguish since Trump’s inauguration.

The shelter, designed to accommodate 170 people, currently includes 190 migrants in the first place from Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador and Haiti.

Tilo noted that many residents, including Martino and Alvarado, have been seized at some point during their trips to the border.

“Here is a dangerous matter because they can be kidnapped. In fact, they are kidnapped,” said Telo.

But Telo made it clear that the immigrants and asylum seekers you know have few options. “Where do they go? Some cannot return to their countries.”

She added that the United States stopped for 90 days to spend external aid has also status the shelter’s ability to meet the needs of migrants and asylum seekers.

Other NGOs provide support to Kaza del Maj that, but their budgets dried up in the wake of the freezing of aid. Casa Del Migrante has already lost a volunteer counseling psychologist as a result.

Tilo explained that she and her colleagues held several meetings with other shelters to discuss how to provide support, but they are not sure of what to do.

“We go day by day,” said Telo.

Johanna Uvando, 31, is among the asylum seekers on the border. El Salvador fled with her husband, two children and a mother.

She was afraid that her country gangs would get her older son now after he was ten years old, a major age for recruitment.

The El Salvador government responded to gang violence by imposing a specific security campaign, which led to widespread violations of human rights. This only increased the risk of survival.

But now that Ovando and her family are stuck on the borders of the United States and Mexico, she asks if she makes the right decision. She said in Mexico, her family faced discrimination, abuse and extortion.

“There is sex trafficking, and one of them walks with fear of persecution,” said Ovando. “By comparing the situation in El Salvador,” it is the same thing there, but it is our country. “

Ovando plans to stay another month in Matamoros. If she does not resume asylum, she and her family will leave.

“We cannot stay here,” said Ovando. “It is very unsafe.”

For Martino, return is not an option. He feels that returning after all that he survived will mean defeat.

“Patience is running out, hope ends and many things must be taken into account,” Martino said. “But quietly, with patience and a lot of faith, we put everything in the hands of God.”

But he acknowledged that his fate is also in the hands of the American president, and hopes to obtain some indicators on his future: “Donald Trump must also give answers.”