Migrants in Mexico on way to US feeling down after Harris loss, Trump win: report

Hundreds of migrants at a shelter on the Mexican side of the southern border say they are waiting anxiously to see if they can cross into the US before President-elect Trump takes office and fear they may not get over the line in time.According to a report in The Telegraph, more than 850 migrants are living at Senda de Vida shelter in the northern Mexican city of Reynosa, a town bordering McAllen, Texas.Many of them have applied using the CBP One app, which was created in 2020 to schedule appointments at points of entry into the US. The migrants have been waiting for months to see if they can get an appointment to legally claim asylum via the app.If their appointment does not come in time, they say they will be forced to attempt to cross the border illegally, risking deportation or being preyed on by the cartels.The mood at the camp, which consists of tents and small wooden buildings, quickly turned from hope to fear in the wake of President-elect Trump’s crushing defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris last week.Raquel Segura, 39, from Nuevo León, Mexico, tells the outlet that he and his two daughters are among those hoping to cross the border. “If Harris had won, people would be jumping for joy and as you can see right now, they look sad, they are feeling down,” Pastor Hector Silva, who runs the shelter, told The Telegraph.One of Trump’s top election promises is to close the border and launch the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States.He has tapped former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Thomas Homan to be his border czar. Homan, a former New York state police officer and former Border Patrol agent, is known as an immigration hardliner.At the Republican National Convention, he warned the millions of illegal immigrants in the US to “start packing now,” and has also warned Democrat governors to “get the hell out of the way” if they plan to block the incoming administration’s mass deport...