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

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      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,
      CNN
      Lopez said
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      We are left adrift, we have no resources left, we arrived in Juarez with money to pay for one night in a hotel,
      CNN
      the native Venezuelan said
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      We all have a story to tell. I fled Venezuela because I was being persecuted, please give us our appointments back,
      CNN
      her compatriot Oswal Paredes told CNN
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      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,
      CNN
      Serrano said
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      Enrique Serrano
      We have to tell it like it is, sadly, all appointments are suspended as well as any possibility of getting one,
      CNN
      Enrique Serrano, a coordinator from Chihuahua state’s population agency told CNN
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      Shelters in Juarez are at 40% capacity,
      CNN
      Serrano also said,
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      Everything changed from one moment to another, we went from hope to desperation,
      CNN
      23-year-old Fabian Delgado said from a shelter
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      I had a thread of hope,
      CNN
      Cabrera told CNN, fighting the cold in a leather jacket and with a winter mask covering most of his face
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      We came here for a brighter future, we are human beings, we did everything legally, we followed the process,
      CNN
      Vargas said from a shelter where she’s staying with other relatives
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      We got lucky, we got an appointment,
      CNN
      Colombie told CNN
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      I felt like every migrant, excited, after so much time waiting,
      CNN
      Cabrera, 33, told CNN
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      Right now, they are emotionally destroyed, after battling so much, all the walking, a lot of them crossed the Darién Gap,
      CNN
      Ivonne Lopez, a social worker, from Casa del Migrante told CNN, referring to a treacherous jungle passage that many migrants must make on foot to cross from South America to North America
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      If we already were in the process, Mr. Trump, please continue with the scheduled appointments, don’t leave us here stranded,
      CNN
      he said
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      We had enough money for the night before our appointment (…) and now we are on the streets,
      CNN
      he said
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      They won’t obtain anything by trying at the crossing points hoping for the US to receive them,
      CNN
      he said
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      The Biden administration had managed to restrict asylum by opening up some other legal avenues and hope that would stand in the court. As of today, there’s almost no way of getting protection at the US border or anywhere along a route to the United States,
      CNN
      said Andrew Selee, president of the think tank Migration Policy Institute
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      They may wait for a while and see what’s going to happen. Whether they wait for a day or a few months, if they’re this far and committed, they’re eventually going to try anyway,
      CNN
      the Homeland Security official said, referring to migrants
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      The decision to eliminate all avenues to seek asylum, even for families with children fleeing for their lives, is a stunning development, one that makes a mockery of our post WWII commitment never to summarily send people back to danger,
      CNN
      said Lee Gelernt, ACLU attorney who led many of the challenges to Trump’s border policies in the first administration, in a statement
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      They say they do want immigrants in the United States, but legal ones. Obviously, we did all this legally. … Right now we don’t know what’s going to happen,
      CNN
      she said
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      We don’t know what we are going to do,
      The Independent
      she said, standing with her family within view of the United States