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They Set Out to Find the American Dream. They’re Stuck in a Mexican Nightmare.
One family’s journey toward the U.S. border shows a region reshaped and a dream reimagined
By Kejal Vyas
Cesar Atencio and Lina Arias rushed with their two small children toward the U.S. border in January, aiming to beat the crackdown on immigration President Trump had promised when he returned to office.
They didn’t make it.
Crossing Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert in a van on a frigid morning, they were stopped by gang members posing as police and kidnapped for ransom.
“They told us they had good news and bad news,” said Arias, 27. “The bad news was for us, that Trump was president and that the border was closed. The good news was for them, that smugglers would be able to charge more for trafficking people and drugs.”
The Trump administration’s hardened border controls and pledges to deport migrants en masse have all but halted the flow of people toward the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time in decades. U.S. authorities say migrant encounters at the border are down 93% from a year ago, to about 7,800 in July.
Countries from Ecuador to Costa Rica to Guatemala are becoming more restrictive to migrants, too. Latecomers to the largest movement of people in the region’s modern history are stuck in limbo all around the Americas.
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