US border braces for four years of cruelty: ‘If they catch us, what will happen to my little girl?’

US border braces for four years of cruelty: ‘If they catch us, what will happen to my little girl?’

For the thousands of migrants waiting in Mexico for the CBP One application to give them an appointment to request a humanitarian permit to enter the United States, getting one is more urgent than ever now that Donald Trump has won the election on a pledge to end this program and carry out mass deportations. The Joe Biden administration, which launched this free tool almost two years ago to regulate the flow of people who arrive at the border to request asylum, says that most app users get an appointment in less than eight weeks. But many of those waiting in Ciudad Juárez say they have been waiting for months without any luck in what they consider a lottery; a raffle that has now become a race against time with the finish line on January 20, the day the Republican will take office.

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