Immigrants we spoke to in U.S. detention and Juárez said they were encouraged by Biden's win. But a Cameroonian had this message: “Detention or prisons should be for people who have committed crimes, not for immigrants...We have come into this country pleading for asylum.”
A Mexican fleeing violence in Michoácan said the Biden victory gives “me and my family some hope. But at this point, we’re so depressed, down, that anything is a sliver of hope.”
Four years of the Trump administration took a toll on many immigrants and their children. A first blow for them: the travel ban. This was the DFW airport scene on Jan. 28, 2017, where 11-year-old Zakaria led protestors in this chant on democracy: https://twitter.com/disolis/status/825549967590821888?s=20
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