Is asylum possible?
Edgaris Castaida Rodriguez, a minor and sensitive, has published twenty -seven -year -old from Venezuela, makeup and dance videos on her few followers on Instagram and Tiktok, but were his positions on the policy that tends to move to the virus. In them, she was open to her opposition to President Nicholas Maduro. In one video, Castañeda spoke about how the policy pushed a wedge between her and her father, who is supportive of Maduro. In other cases, information about the protests participated to support the opposition party. People have started sending her videos about the police violence and the accounts of the threats they received, and will return them.
Castañeda sites made her mother, Louisa, nervousness, but Castañeda was convinced that Vente Venezuela would take power. Instead, last July, Maduro announced victory in elections that are widely understood that it is corrupt. The demonstrators collected the streets, hit the pots and pans. Maduro began accused of participating in a coup and brutal repression, which included secret torture and detention, the killing of demonstrators, members of opposition concerts, and their relatives, according to Human Rights Watch.
Last fall, government officials at Castañeda came with an inspection order. Castañeda was not at home, but her mother was. Officials pushed Louisa, who fell and broke the thigh. They searched the Castañeda room, seized the papers, driving the thumb, and a laptop. Later, Castañeda will learn that there is an order to arrest her, accusing her of treason. Castañeda, terrifying, started selling her clothes to finance escape. In mid -December, she and her mother fled from Venezuela, intending to demand political asylum in the United States. But in the middle of their journey north, President Donald Trump, in one of his first works, actually suspended political asylum on the border.
The refugee system in the United States dates back to the years after the Second World War, when the international community has placed protection for the people who were displaced or fled persecuted. It has become a pivotal point in immigration discussion in recent years, as the majority of migrants crossing the southwestern border have sought asylum. According to American law, people who appear “reliable fear” of political persecution in their motherland are entitled to hear their case by the immigration judge, even if they cross the border illegally. But the system is very accumulated – there are nearly two million suspended cases – so it may take years before this happens. “Waiting has become his own draw,” said Adam Isaxon, from the Washington office in Latin America. During his first term, Donald Trump imposed strict (controversial) limits on asylum; Joe Biden partially raised, at first, but in the end he created others. In his second term, Trump appears to be determined to move forward.
“Instead of waiting for the waiting by employing more judges and asylum officers at the cost of what they suggest spending on border security,” Isaxon said – in the Republican Tax Bill – “they are only trying to stop the regime completely.” “We seem to have returned to how things were before 1945, and this happens at a time when the number of people fleeing insecurity and other threats is the highest in about fifty years.”
Castañeda and her mother traveled across Central America, as the United States retreated towards the opening day. Castañeda was not a serious concern about the new administration. At the end of Trump’s first term, protection extended to the Venezuelan, protected from deportation; In an official note, Trump referred to the responsibility of the Maduro administration for “the worst humanitarian crisis in Western football in modern memory.” As I understood that, Trump wanted to get criminals out of the country, and she was not a criminal.
In Panama, the two women met a nice young man named Anthony Cordova, who was traveling with his mother, wife and young daughter. The Kordova-Villaz family fled Ecuador after a Cartel tried to blackmail him, and when he refused to pay, he left death threats at his mother’s door. They, too, were hoping for asylum asylum. The group traveled together when they managed, although Castañeda and her mother were sometimes left behind, due to the weak health of Louisa.
When Castañeda and Luisa finally arrived in Mexico, in early January, they created accounts on the CBP One app, which, in 2023, became the main channel through which immigrants can seek to inform them in the United States (not only the application can be accessed in the claim of Mexico. But on January 20, the day that Trump led to the right office, the CBP One application stopped suddenly from work. Executive order, Trump claimed that there is a “invasion” on the southern border, and that the migrants “are bound by calling” asylum until the administration announced otherwise.
Castaneda and her mother were not sure of what to do. The flow of immigrants stimulated the shadow economy from blackmail and exploitation in Mexico, and it was difficult to know who he trusted. The owners were transferred from the crane prices when they learned that women are from Venezuela. They ended up sharing a room with more than half of the other people. Castañeda applied for a job as a hospital receptionist, but when the man who met her told her she was beautiful, she realized that something else is happening. Try to recruit it in a plan to marry an elderly American citizen. After she refused, the man harassed her – on the phone and the character – for weeks.
Last month, Castañeda and Luisa decided, along with Cordova-Leverez and his mother, Esneida, that their safer choice is to go north to demand asylum. (Cordova Velez’s wife chose to return to Ecuador with their daughter after the family escaped from an attempt to kidnap in Mexico.) They traveled to the city of Chihua and tried to transport a Readesheer to the nearest official border crossing, in Oclaga. But the economy in the region was dominated by the Kartitat. (Last year, five drivers were shot at the back of the head, and according to what was reported to agree to transfer immigrants from the city of Chihua to Ouenga without a Cartel’s permission) The driver removed them in a hotel, where the group’s woman told the group that someone would come to take them across the border the next day. Castañeda also understood that, the city was controlled by Cartel, and through that they would have to pay money they had. She tried to play her, and told the woman that she was a city content creator to make videos about tourism.
That night, the quadruple infiltrated outside the city, very afraid of operating its lamps. It took hours to reach Rio Grande. When they crossed the river, near the Lajitas Golf Resort, they were seen by a soldier on a monitoring duty, one of the thousands of American forces who are newly stationed on the border. By the time when the border patrol agent found that the group is not far from the bank of the river, Castañeda had the order of her Venezuelan arrest in her hand. “I am politically persecuted!” I told the agent. Castañeda, Luisa, Cordova-Vlelez and Esneida were arrested and charged with illegal entry into the United States.
In the past, after the migrant criminal case is revealed to illegal entry, they will be transferred to Ice The nursery, where they can try to demand asylum. “The true battle in the Immigration Court,” a lawyer told me. But when Castañeda spoke with Chris Carlin, who runs the federal general defender office in the West Province in Texas, he was concerned that because of Trump’s executive order, he might not be allowed to submit a claim to resort to. Instead, he warned her that she can be deported quickly, and may return to Venezuela. About two thousand people have been deported, including at least ninety -four women and two children, from the United States to Venezuela so far this year. “We have not closed access to the resort to this extent,” Melissa Crowe, director of litigation at the Section and Refugee Center. The case of a married couple described both Christians, who came to the United States fleeing religious persecution in Iran. The husband was deported to Costa Rica, while the wife was arrested and feared sent to a third country. Crowe said: “We undermine all the principles represented by this country, and the lives of people are suspended in balance.”