Stranded at the border: Migrants are in limbo after Trump cancels border app appointments

There’s the train, the cartels, migration police, and they all make you pay them,

she said as she fed her children bread beside a small shelter where they slept

We’re going to keep going. We can’t go home after all we’ve been through, after all the countries we’ve fought our way through, only to give up now,

she said from a small shelter in central Mexico beside a freight train line they were riding north

It's like abandoning everything after everything that's happened to us,

she said

I saw the posts that went viral with migrants crying the border. It was exactly the same here: people are desperate,

said Josué Leal, from the Oasis De Paz del Espíritu Santo Amparito shelter in Villahermosa, a city in the Gulf of Mexico state of Tabasco

Any time it becomes more difficult to access asylum or cross the border, coyotes make money. And that means cartels make money,

said Ari Sawyer, a migration researcher

I feel desperate, and fear what’s going to happen next,

said one displaced Mexican woman at the Centro de Esperanza immigrant shelter in Sonoyta, a small, dusty town in the border state of Sonora

CBP One was riddled with errors, and ultimately it was a tool that forced people to wait in Mexico to access the US asylum system,

said Andrew Bahena, from Chirla, an immigrant advocacy group

I wouldn’t wish what we’ve been through on anyone. It was so hard to get here and now we don’t know what will happen,

said Juan, a Venezuelan man who asked for his last name to be withheld

Maybe Trump will calm down a bit,

said María Angela, with a wry smile

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I’m not going back until Maduro goes,

said Nixon, his good cheer vanishing for a moment as he mentioned the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro

There were families from this camp who spent thousands of dollars on plane tickets – almost all their worldly resources – just to have their appointments cancelled,

he added

We got lucky, we got an appointment,

one asylum seeker told CNN

Migrants here should stay calm, there are no instructions for raids here on the Mexican side, the instructions we’ve been given is to give them proper treatment,

Serrano said

We are left adrift, we have no resources left, we arrived in Juarez with money to pay for one night in a hotel,

the native Venezuelan said

They want a sign of hope, they want to know what’s going to happen with them, they had their appointment canceled, but is there another option,

Lopez said

We all have a story to tell. I fled Venezuela because I was being persecuted, please give us our appointments back,

her compatriot Oswal Paredes told CNN

Shelters in Juarez are at 40% capacity,

Serrano also said,

Everything changed from one moment to another, we went from hope to desperation,

23-year-old Fabian Delgado said from a shelter

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We have to tell it like it is, sadly, all appointments are suspended as well as any possibility of getting one,

Enrique Serrano, a coordinator from Chihuahua state’s population agency told CNN

I felt like every migrant, excited, after so much time waiting,

Cabrera, 33, told CNN