"Yoselin Lopez arrived in Ciudad Juarez on a bad day. On January 20, 2025, this young Honduran woman, holding her two-year-old son Mateo's hand and seven months pregnant, set foot on this border. Three days later, she had her appointment to request asylum in the United States. They had left Tegucigalpa and arrived frozen to the bone on the train that crosses Mexico, known to all as La Bestia (The Beast)."
"At midday, the shock hit. In the first minutes of his return to the White House, Donald Trump canceled the asylum application platform and initiated what everyone already knew he wanted: a United States without migrants. A year later, Mateo runs around in a dinosaur-themed jacket at the entrance of the cathedral, Santiago stares wide-eyed from his mother's arms, and Yoselin, now only 23, waits for a humanitarian flight to repatriate them to Tegucigalpa."
"The border is not a strip of land. It looks like a shared brain, a moldable matter torn by a metal wall. One single territory split in two; both sides coil and squeeze each other. The initial blow landed here. Donald Trump was signing his first set of presidential measures in Washington, and Colombian migrant Margelis Tinoco collapsed at the entrance to the border bridge that connects Juarez with El Paso, watching her future shatter into pieces."
Yoselin Lopez, a 23-year-old Honduran who was seven months pregnant, arrived in Ciudad Juarez with her two-year-old son Mateo on January 20, 2025, after traveling on La Bestia. She had an appointment to request asylum three days later. In the first minutes of Donald Trump's return to the White House, the asylum application platform was canceled and sweeping measures targeting migrants were announced, creating fear across the border. Migrants and officials in Juarez reacted with shock; some collapsed at the bridge to El Paso. A year later, families remain stranded, children play near the cathedral, and some await humanitarian flights or repatriation.
Read at english.elpais.com
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