Exclusive | These migrants risked everything to cross into the US guided by a one-armed smuggler before Trump becomes president

EAGLE PASS, Texas — The group of migrant women with three young kids in tow slowly trudged their way into the US across a shallow stretch of the Rio Grande led by a one-armed coyote smuggler, braving a treacherous route and fleeing cartel checkpoints along the way.They put it all on the line because they knew the Trump administration — and its no-nonsense new border czar — would soon be in charge at the border.“It’s a risk,” one of the women from Venezuela told The Post moments after slipping into the country and into the waiting arms of Border Patrol agents.“Because many of us enter due to necessity or because we’re politically persecuted, or problems of violence in our country.”The woman, wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt, said she believed that the former president would be re-elected, so she and others in her group rushed to make it over the border — knowing their time with absentee border czar Vice President Kamala Harris in charge was running out.Asked if she thinks she’ll be deported once President-elect Trump is in office, she grimly acknowledged, “it could happen,” and admitted his return to the White House is what sped up their timetable for entering the country.She said she had spent five months in Mexico City trying unsuccessfully to get an appointment with CBP One — a Biden-Harris administration app designed to allow asylum seekers a legal pathway into America which has been exploited by criminal migrants and gang members.“I never got an appointment … and decided to risk crossing and see what happens,” she said.Days after the election, officials on both sides of the US southern border are gearing up for a last-minute mad dash of thousands of migrants before Trump takes office officials said.An average of 300 migrants are still flooding in illegally every day into Eagle Pass — and although foot traffic has slowed considerably since the peak — down some 86%, officials say — the Lone Star State is still preparing for the...