(20 Jan 2025)
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El Paso, Texas – 20 January 2025
1. Wide of US law enforcement personnel in riot gear at border crossing
2. Mid of people arriving in downtown El Paso after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriela Suarez, 29, Colombia immigrant:
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"I think that this government that is being sworn in today, he (Trump) has made it clear that he doesn’t want immigrants. My only fear would be, since I just recently crossed the border, that he wouldn’t allow me to submit any paperwork or do whatever is possible to stay in the US legally. That’s the way things should be done."
4. Man greeting woman after crossing
5. People walking
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Oldris Rodriguez, 19, Immigrant from Venezuela:
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"It’s not good, I know there are people from my country and other countries waiting in Mexico, which is not easy, waiting for their appointment. Some have been waiting for a long time, for 2 years, a year and a half, several months, waiting for an appointment. I was very nervous, it was my first time crossing. I’m not very good at English. I was a bit nervous, so I asked God to calm me down."
7. Various of people at the crossing
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriela Suarez, 29, Immigrant from Colombia:
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"Our Latin American countries are going through some difficulties, both sociopolitical and in terms of persecution. Some countries like Venezuela, Nicaragua or Cuba, they have an existing dictatorship, which forces people to run away from their countries. There’s no stability to survive. There’s no clear future for anybody."
9. STILLS of migrants reuniting after entering US border
10. Various of people crossing from Mexico into the US
STORYLINE:
The Trump administration Monday ended use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.
Immigrant communities around the United States have been bracing for a crackdown that the newly sworn-in President Donald Trump has been promising throughout his campaign.
In El Paso, Texas, some expressed worry the pledges made by Trump to reshape the country’s border policies could impact their ability to work and travel.
Gabriela Suarez, 29, a recent migrant worker from Colombia said her future in the country was uncertain.
“I think that this government that is being sworn in today. He (Trump) has made it clear that he doesn’t want immigrants. My only fear would be, since I just recently crossed the border, that he wouldn’t allow me to submit any paperwork or do whatever is possible to stay in the US legally. That’s the way things should be done."
Other orders that were previewed Monday by an incoming White House official before Trump took office aim to end asylum access, send troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, suspend the refugee program, force people seeking asylum to wait in Mexico and end birthright citizenship.
There was little detail on specifically how these broad plans would be executed.
Many of the steps echoed previous ones during Trump’s first administration that also faced lawsuits. Others — like the effort to end the constitutional right to automatic citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. — marked sweeping new strategies that are expected to elicit pushback in the courts.
“It’s not good, I know there are people from my country and other countries waiting in Mexico, which is not easy, waiting for their appointment,” said Oldris Rodriguezl, 19.
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