The Trump administration has cracked down on legal pathways to immigration, severely restricting political asylum and leaving tens of thousands of migrants, who had hoped to move to the U.S., stranded in Mexico. Now, they are looking for alternative ways to make those dreams happen.
Throughout the campaign trail, President Trump had promised to "close" the southern border and enact the largest deportation operation in American history. Those efforts are taking shape. In a recent 24-hour period, Customs and Border Protection agents encountered 229 migrants at the southwest border, down from a peak of more than 11,000 daily in the Biden administration, border czar Tom Homan said.
