Migrants want Kamala Harris to beat Donald Trump, Latin American reports claim

News dispatches from Latin America indicate that migrants who hope to cross into the U.S. are worried Donald Trump will win. 

There has been reporting from Ecuador to Spain about how migrants will react to the November contest. 

Trump has been much tougher and outspoke about how he wants to secure the U.S.-Mexico border while Vice President Kamala Harris has just recently proposed support for the wall after previously calling it anti-American. 

‘Migrants see risks with Trump’s return’ one Mexican article published September 20 was titled. 

Another referenced Ecuadorian migrants’ desire to see Vice President Kamala Harris win, who they describe as making them feel more ‘reassured’ they could stay in the U.S. longer. 

The Mexican outlet El Imparcial wrote:  ‘A potential victory of Republican candidate Donald Trump in the race for the presidency of the United States would toughen immigration procedures, said the specialist in Immigration Law and International Law, Josefina Orozco.’

‘Immigrants who are in the United States with a status that could lead to their deportation’ may then become ‘vulnerable,’ it continued.

Harris has supported positions like ignoring deportation requirements and has been against, what she has called, the ‘un-American’ U.S.-Mexico wall.

However, during a trip to the border in Arizona Friday the Democratic presidential candidate vowed to spend millions on the barrier if elected. 

Still, Harris and Biden have overseen the largest influx of illegal immigration in years with some 10 million migrant encounters being expected later this year according to the House Homeland Security Committee.

A report from the Mexican outlet El Imparcial highlighting migrants concerns about Trump

Spanish outlet Diario Publico reported over the summer in Tijuana, Mexico, that migrants there were concerned that Trump would end the Biden-Harris administration’s migrant screening phone app – CBP One – that can help facilitate flights into the U.S. 

Ecuadorian agency La Republica wrote the citizens there shared their ‘fear’ over a Trump victory in November.

Migrants wait in line to resolve their status in the city of Tapachula, Mexico, 23 September 2024. Mexico’s southern border is experiencing a new wave of migration as a month has passed since the new US rule that allows an asylum appointment through the ‘CBP One’ application to be processed from the Mexican border with Central America

Spanish outlet Diario Publico reported over the summer in Tijuana, Mexico, that migrants there were concerned that Trump would end the Biden-Harris administration’s migrant screening phone app – CBP One – that can help facilitate flights into the U.S.

The app has been helpful in facilitating tens of thousands of migrants into the U.S.

At times 30,000 migrants a month have been allowed to fly into the U.S. from select countries using the app.

‘Concern grows among migrants on the US-Mexico border over a possible Trump victory,’ the report said. 

Migrants from all over the globe enter Arizona from Mexico

Former President Donald Trump visits the border in the Montezuma pass area of Cochise County In Arizona in August to talk about border security

Ecuadorian agency La Republica, wrote on September 1 individuals ‘stranded at the border with the United States and Mexico’ and those migrants who have made it into the U.S. are worried ‘that their trip will be cut short,’ under Trump’s policies.

They reported these migrants inside and heading toward the U.S. ‘feel ‘reassured’ that with Harris they could stay in the country a little longer than under the new Trump administration, which ordered the deportation of a million migrants as soon as he steps into the White House.’

Additionally, a July report from the Associated Press uncovered that migrants in Mexico wanting to illegally cross into the U.S. wanted to get there before the election. 

The sprint was on for these migrants ‘for fear that the border would be closed in the event of a Trump victory,’ it said.