Several cities in Noord -Mexico have seen a major decrease in the arrival of migrants who wanted to reach the American border since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
The Comarca Lagunera region, consisting of five cities in the state of Coahuila and 10 in the state of Durango, experienced a decrease from 95 to 97 percent in migrants from the south trying to reach the US by the end of last year, Milenio reported.
During the first few months of 2024, civil servants normally came across groups of up to 800 migrants passing through the area, said Raul Meraz, sub -secretary for the region.
Meraz remembered that the largest group in December – the month after Trump was chosen on a platform of strict border security and the eviction of illegal migrants – consisted of 120 migrants.
The group was noticed at a train station outside of service in Gómez Palacio, more than 300 miles from the American border, and received help from several government agencies.
Erick López and his family belonged to the decreasing number of migrants that reached the region.
They left their house in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa in the hope of crossing to America.
'At first the idea was to cross to the other side, but when it got worse with Donald Trump, we decided to stay because I came with my wife and [three] Children, “López told Milenio.
The city of Torreón in the Comarca Lagunera region, which experienced a decrease from 95 to 97 percent in migrants from the south to reach the US by the end of 2024
A migrant will play with her child on Saturday in a shelter in Piedras Negras in the state of Coahuila
To support his loved ones, López camps in the city of Torreón with his two oldest children, looking for donations on a street.
His wife stays with their youngest child, a baby, in a house in neighboring Gómez Palacio whose owner has to let them stay there because he had no one to take care of the building.
“A man gives us a place to stay. We met him here [while panhandling]”López remembered.
“He told me he had already seen me a few days ago and he told me that his house was not abandoned, but that he had no one to take care of it. Thank goodness, the people are very good, the police here too. In the south of Mexico they robbed us, but not here. '
María Martínez, coordinating director of the Jesus Torres Flaire Day Center for Migrants in Torreón, said that the Migrants site normally allows a few nights to stay a few nights.
But that has changed as migrants fear being held by the National Guard of Mexico.
“…[W]e think what they are trying to do now is to get a legal stay, “Martínez told Milenio.
She attributed to the delay in migrant arrivals to the increased presence of the army.
Asylum seekers, who had made agreements through the American customs and border protection CBP one request, waited outside the National Institute of Migration in Piedras Negras
Honduran National Isai Mendez, 13, spent 13 months with his mother and sister waiting for an asylum appointment and were informed on January 21, the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated that their appointment had been canceled
“They no longer want to try and give themselves up,” she said. “The migration flow is changing. If we have eight migrants, there are hiding places that do not even have one and you wonder, what happens, why do people continue to leave their countries? '
Immigration figures provided by American customs and border protection showed that there were 61,465 interdictions of migrants trying to cross the border last month, a sharp decrease compared to December 2024, when 96,048 incidents were registered.
Data showed that at least 2,000 fears were reported in the three weeks before Trump was put on.
For comparison: on average 786 migrant ban were reported after his return to the White House.
According to data obtained by DailyMail.com from the National Institute of Migration of Mexico, 12,254 Mexicans and 3,334 people from other Nationalities from the US have been deported to Mexico since Trump took office.
