Migrants who left their home countries headed for the US border are racing against time. Their goal is to get across before Donald Trump is inaugurated because word has spread that after Jan. 20 it won’t be so easy.
after leaving her hometown of Siguatepeque, in Honduras’ central highlands, she learned that Donald Trump had won the US election touting a crackdown on immigration – one that she feared could shrink her chances of reaching the US after a nearly 3-month trip through central America and Mexico.
Speaking from a shelter in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in December, the 39-year-old told CNN she was racing against the clock to reach the US’s southern border with Mexico before Trump’s January 20 inauguration.
“We’ve been told that when Trump starts, he won’t let us in,” Altagracia, who asked CNN not to share her last name over…
