At a camp in Mexico, migrants weigh the prospect of a second Trump term

Ramirez has pinned his hopes for asylum connected an assignment done the CBP One app, a escaped integer level established nether the archetypal Trump medication successful 2020.

Outgoing US President Joe Biden has since expanded the app’s use, making it a request for the bulk of asylum applicants arriving astatine the US border.

But critics person noted that the app tin beryllium glitchy, and not each asylum seekers person entree to the exertion needed to usage it.

Wait times for an assignment person been arsenic agelong arsenic 4 months, according to a report from the advocacy radical Human Rights Watch.

That tin permission immoderate asylum seekers susceptible to onslaught oregon exploitation, arsenic they hold successful Mexico’s borderline regions for their assignment to arrive.

However, arsenic Trump prepares for his 2nd word successful the White House, asylum seekers fearfulness that adjacent entree to CBP One whitethorn beryllium restricted.

On September 15, during his run for re-election, Trump promised connected societal media that helium would “terminate the Kamala telephone app”, utilizing the sanction of his rival successful the race, Kamala Harris, to picture CBP One.

He besides accused the app of being utilized for “smuggling illegals”, an allegation made without proof. CBP One is tally done the US Customs and Border Protection bureau successful the national government.

Omar Ramirez shows disconnected his heavy blistered feet aft reaching Santiago Niltepec [Mirja Vogel/Al Jazeera]

The absorption connected CBP One is expected to beryllium portion of a larger propulsion by the Trump medication to restrict asylum access, a close protected nether some planetary and US law.

For Ramirez, that means getting to the US borderline sooner alternatively than aboriginal is vital.

He near his household astatine location successful Venezuela, fearing what would hap connected his trek north. In 2023, the International Organization for Migration adjacent named the way to the US-Mexico borderline the "deadliest onshore way for migrants worldwide".

Ramirez said helium would not person been capable to unrecorded with himself if his "wife and children joined him connected this unspeakable path".

If helium manages to successfully assertion asylum, Ramirez said helium hopes to gain capable wealth to bring them safely to the US successful the adjacent year.