Altagracia is one of several migrants CNN spoke to who are racing to reach the US-Mexico border before Trump returns to the White House.
“Everyone wants to arrive before [Trump] does,” another migrant, from Cuba, told CNN.
Migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border remain at their lowest levels since 2020, according to US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data.
“It is difficult to say that this decline has mainly to do with a Trump effect,” George Mason University policy and government professor Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera told CNN.
Despite their challenges and fears, the migrants CNN spoke to said they intended to reach the border.
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