Destroyed hopes, deportations in shackles and desperate attempts to cross the border
Trump announced an emergency on the border with Mexico. This is how people who dreamed of finding a shelter experience it
Mexican police and immigration service employees accompany a family deported from the United States on January 22. Photos of the Mexican border section was taken from the city of Nogales in Arizona. John Moore / Getty images
Strengthening the security of American borders is one of the key points of the Donald Trump program, with which he won the US president. Immediately after taking office, the Republican announced a state of emergency on the southern border in order to stop the flow of illegal migration from Mexico. This decision suggests that the US armed forces will be more actively involved in the security of the border, additional protective structures will be built along it (in fact, new wall sections), more unmanned aerial vehicles will participate in patrolling - and other measures. A sharp tightening of control (already reinforced in the last year of Joe Biden's reign) led to chaos and panic among people who were going to legally come to the United States from Mexico. To do this, they used a special CBP One app. It allowed foreigners to make an appointment at eight checkpoints at the border. Since 2023, almost a million people used the service. But Trump canceled the action of CBP One immediately after its inauguration, canceled and already assigned slots. About what is happening on the American-Mexican border in the early days of the reign of the new US president is in our gallery.
Rebecca Noble / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta a group of immigrants warms up by the fire in anticipation of the US border patrol in the town of Sasaba on the border with Mexico. Photo taken on the day of Trump's inauguration - January 20, 2025 Felix Marquez / DPA / Scanpix / Leta Immigrants from Mexico and other Latin America are watching the broadcast of Trump's inauguration in Sheventudu 2000 in the city of Tihuan. On the same day-January 20, 2025-many of them lost the opportunity to legally get to the territory of the United States due to the closure of the CBP ONE application Cheney Orr / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta 32-year-old Menduras from Honduras and her 15-year-old daughter Sofia for 13 months expected their chance to request refuge in the United States. Their reception through the CBP One application was eventually appointed on January 21, 2025. The day before the appeal, Trump closed the application and annulled all the already assigned slots. The Mendes family learned about this decision in Shelter in the Mexican city of Pedra-Negrass Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta giant tent in the Mexican city of Syudad-Huarez, in which the Mexico authorities urgently launched a temporary asylum for emigrants, who, after the decree of Trump, lost the opportunity to legally get into the territory of the United States. January 26, 2025 Kyle Chan / US Department of Defense / AFP / Scanpix / Leta American marines set the barbed wire over the wall on the border with Mexico near the California town of San Ishidro on January 25, 2025. Three days earlier, the Pentagon, as part of the execution of the Trump decree on the emergency, sent one and a half thousand military personnel to the border, including 500 marines, in addition to 2.5 thousand military, already monitor illegal immigration from Mexico Alberto Fajardo / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Construction of a water barrier from Buy to suppress illegal attempts to cross the border on the Rio Granda River in the area of the city of Ikol-Pass in Texas. The photo was taken on January 21, 2025 from the drone from the Mexican side of the border from the city Felix Marquez / AP / Scanpix / Leta deported from the United States immigrants return to the territory of Mexico along the pedestrian bridge on the border in the area of the city of Tihuana January 21, 2025 Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta immigrant attempts to an illegal crossing of the US border on January 28, 2025. Through a hole in the wall erected by the American side, he was able to penetrate the territory of the city of Sanland Park in New Mexico Gregory Bull / AP / Scanpix / Leta Agent of the US Border Patrol Patrol Next to four young men who illegally crossed the American border on January 23, 2025, finding a gap in the wall in the San Diego area. In the United States, they voluntarily surrendered to the authorities John Moore / Getty Images A group of illegal immigrants from several families who penetrated the territory of the United States across the border section not covered by a wall, on January 20, 2025 - a few hours before Trump's inauguration. US patrol agents are preparing to take them back to Mexico from the town of Sasabe in Arizona Nicholas de la Pena / US Army / Planet Pix / Zuma Press Wire / Scanpix / Leta Agents of the US Borderline Service accompanying a group of illegal immigrants chained into handcuffs and shackles, on board the US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III. On January 23, 2025, the American authorities organized this “deportation” flight from the Texas base of Fort Bliss to Guatemala. For the first time, the US Air Force fleet was used to expel immigrants Carlos A. Moreno / Anadolu / Getty Images Construction of the Plaidyas de Tikhuan wall section in the Mexican city of Tihuana January 21, 2025. Earlier, the construction of protective structures in this area was suspended and disputed in court. After the inauguration of Trump, the work was immediately resumed Jorge Salgado / Anadolu / Getty Images The helicopter patrols the section of the American-Mexican border in the city of Sanland Park in New Mexico on January 24, 2025 Raquel Cunha / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta a woman dressed in a T -shirt with the elements of the US flag, expects the sentence from the Mexican city of the Whistle of the Immigrant Caravan on January 21, 2025 Damian Sanchez / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Immigrant Caravan, who could not get to the USA across the southern border, near the Mexican city of Wayetan on January 26, 2025. All these people now hope to get asylum in America, crossing the country's border from the north
