Wanting To Enter The US Before Trump POWERs, Hundreds Of Legal Antre Migrants In Mexico Immigration

US-Mexico/ILLUSTRATION Border UNSPLASH/Barbara Zandoval

JAKARTA - Hundreds of migrants are waiting in long lines outside the immigration office in southern Mexico. They hope to get a safe journey north and enter the United States legally before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.

Trump plans to end President Joe Biden's humanitarian program, including a program that allows migrants in some parts of Mexico to make mutual appointments through the US government's application, known as CBP One, to approach ports entering and entering the US legally.

The Mexican government runs a migrant transport program with a confirmed CBP One meeting promise from southern Mexico to the northern border.

This is an effort to protect them from gangs and organized crime groups that extort and kidnap migrants traveling across the country.

On Monday, December 30, migrants in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula were waiting to get a seat on these buses. They were relieved to have managed to get one of the CBP One appointments coveted in early January, before Trump took office on the 20th.

"We will arrive before President Donald Trump takes office, whatever action he takes," said Venezuelan migrant Johandry Paz.

"We have confirmed our meeting promise and we want to achieve our goal in the United States," he said.

Mexican government buses generally operate twice or three times a week, transporting migrants as far as thousands of miles north to Mexican border cities.

Yesterday my appointment was confirmed on January 4, so I was in a hurry to reach the border, said Salvadoran migrant Jose Escobar.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants can enter the US legally and obtain work permits as a result of CBP One and other Joe Biden humanitarian programs.