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Sister Maria Tello Claro, director of Casa Del Migrants, explained that the mood at her shelter turned into sadness and anxiety of Trump’s inauguration.
The shelter, designed to accommodate 170 people, is currently 190 migrants primarily from Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador and Haiti.
Tello noticed that many residents, including Martino and Alvarado, were hostages at some point during their trips to the border.
“It’s dangerous here because I can get them away. In fact, they are abducted,” Tello said.
But Tello explained that migrants and asylum seekers who know have little options. “Where will they go? Some of them cannot return to their countries. “
She added that the American 90-day break on the consumption with a foreign assistance, also limited the ability to get a shelter to solve the needs of migrants and asylum seekers.
Other non -governmental organizations offer CASA del Migrant support, but their budgets dried after freezing assistance. Casa Del Migrants lost one of her two psychologists of voluntary counseling as a result.
Tello explained that she and her colleagues had several meetings with other shelters to talk about how to support, but they are not sure what to do.
“We’re going day by day,” Tello said.
Johanna Arch, 31, is among the seekers of asylums stranded on the border. El Salvador escaped with her husband, two children and her mother.
She was afraid that her country’s gangs would capture her oldest son now that he was 10 years old, which is the most important age for employment.
The government of El Salvador responded to violence by gang by imposing a security breakthrough of iron stab, resulting in a widespread violence of human rights. It is just an amplifier at the risk of residence.
But now that the Archish and her family are stuck at the border of the US-Mexico, she wonders if she has made the correct decision. In Mexico, she said, her family faced discrimination, abuse and extortion.
“There is a sex trade, and one walk with fear of persecution,” Odando said. Comparing the situation with El Salvador, she added, “It’s the same there, but that’s our country.”
Odando plans to stay for another month at the Matamoros shelter. If the asylum process does not continue, she and her family will leave.
“We can’t stay here,” Odando said. “It’s very insecure.”
For Martino, however, return is not an option. He feels that the return after all that survived would mean defeat.
“Patience is running out, hope ends and many things need to be taken into account,” Martino said. “But calmly, with patience and a lot of faith we put everything in the hands of God.”
But he admitted that his fate was also in the hands of the US president and hoped for some indications of what his future had: “Donald Trump also has to answer.”
