Migrants Stranded by Trump's Border Policy

0:00On April 23rd, when Donald Trump took office last January 20th, he slammed the U.S.-Mexico border shut on asylum claims, stranding around three, 100,000 migrants who trek north for safety. These folks, mostly from Venezuela, but also Ecuador, Haiti, and spots in Africa and Asia, suddenly faced a dead end after crossing brutal terrain like the Daryen Gap. Earlier this year, a reverse flow kicked off, peaking between March and August as people headed back south. Colombian data shows it slowed after that, but is still trickling in, with aid workers in places like Tapatula, Mexico, confirming the trend, through shelter logs and chats with returnees. Migrants like Mario Torres shot in the leg by gunmen in Mexico, or families like Edwin's in Panama City, selling cookies at stoplights for 15. But today, hotel rent are worn out and confused. Many live day-to-day, undocumented, scraping tips or stretching meals, scar from robberies, shipwrecks, and corrupt cops along the way.

1:00New twists keep piling on, like the U.S. grabbing Venezuela's president and slashing aid budgets, leaving UN groups blind to the chaos. Regional leaders from Chile to Argentina are cracking down too, joining Trump's border shield while deporting thousands, trapping folks between, hostile homes, and unwelcoming hosts. So now, hundreds of thousands drift in limbo across Latin America, dodging deadly sea routes and cartel paths, still hunting for that one stable spot, amid the shifting storms.