Migrants trapped on the Mexican border: ‘I don’t know what will become of us’
Thousands of people are in limbo as the CBP One asylum application is shut down on the first day of the Donald Trump administration
For just one day, Odalys Fundicheli and her granddaughter Lía have been trapped in a limbo from which almost no one yet knows how to escape. Fundicheli, 62, comes from Cuba and had an appointment to cross the border into the United States through Tijuana this Tuesday. On the other side, her family was waiting for her. But CBP One, the application that the U.S. government opened to manage entries in a regulated manner, has ceased to exist after the inauguration of Donald Trump. One day before her turn, everything has collapsed and all appointments have been canceled. “We feel very frustrated and helpless,” says Fundicheli, while her 14-year-old granddaughter cries next to her. “We were going to meet up with my daughter who lives in Dallas, but they say the application is canceled. I don’t know what will become of us, it is the first time we have left Cuba.” Like them, thousands of people have been left stranded since Monday on the border between Mexico and the United States.
