(21 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sunland Park, New Mexico – 21 January 2025
1. Various of border patrol vehicles patrol around the border wall
ASSOCIATED PRESS
El Paso, Texas – 21 January 2025
2. Various of cab drives wait at Paso de Norte bridge, El Paso, Texas on Tuesday.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Maynes, Cab driver:
"It’s the 20th, Trump is coming into office, and they had already warned us or let us know. These guys hear us, the 20th would probably be the last day. And I’ve noticed that there is less people out here. So you can tell this. Would lots of people lined up here across the street., and then the vans, of course, to transport them and it’s nothing today."
4. Mid of police officers stay guard on the street corner in El Paso
5. Various of pedestrians arrive in downtown El Paso after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sandra Angeles, El Paso Resident:
"The bridge is empty. There’s no one (migrants) there."
7. Mid of sign that reads "El Paso Street."
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Maynes, Cab driver:
"Most of them did come in and were able to get flights out of El Paso and bus transportation, and a lot of them stayed because they didn’t have transportation. I see a lot of them throughout the city in El Paso, where they’re at the corner asking for money. Mothers with small children, you know, and I mean, it’s sad because you can only do so much, you know, you can’t help everyone."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sunland Park, New Mexico – 21 January 2025
9. Mid of border patrol vehicles speed off by the border wall
10. Mid of a border patrol van seen in the distance
11. Mid of border patrol van speeds past the rail crossing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
El Paso, Texas – 21 January 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sandra Angeles, El Paso Resident:
"In the recent months, less."
13. Mid of pedestrians arrive in downtown El Paso after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
STORYLINE:
When a border app that had allowed nearly 1 million migrants to enter the U.S. stopped working, migrants stopped arriving at a storefront where a nonprofit was set up to help them near the Paso del Norte International Bridge.
The storefront sat empty Tuesday, with only a couple of workers there one day after President Donald Trump ended use of the app, called CBP One. Vans were no longer taking migrants to their next destination.
“It’s really quiet,” said Robert Maynes, 61, a cab driver.
The U.S.-Mexico border had turned sharply from a state of unprecedented turmoil in 2023 to relative calm before Trump declared a national emergency in a raft of first-day edicts that promise to reshape immigration policy. Some changes will come sooner than later, if at all.
Trump laid the groundwork for military deployments and spending, vastly expanded detention space, declaration of wartime powers to deport people who deemed foreign enemies.
For Trump, severe asylum restrictions that his predecessor, Joe Biden, introduced last year didn’t go far enough. December arrests plunged to levels below much of 2019, the highest year of Trump’s first term, but were still triple the level of April 2017, the time that the president highlighted on charts at campaign rallies.
Some changes took effect immediately. Trump ended use of CBP One and a policy that allowed more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to fly to the U.S. at their own expense with a financial sponsor. On Tuesday, the Homeland Security Department said it resumed a Trump-era policy of making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.
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