Asylum seekers left the hover after Trump's procedure

They arrive at the US border from all over the world: Eritrea, Guatemala, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ghana, Uzbekistan and so many other countries.

They come for asylum and insist that they are pursued because of their religion or sexuality or to support the wrong politicians.

For generations, they had the opportunity to do their case for their authorities.

No longer.

“They did not give us an ice officer with whom they could speak. They gave us no interview. Nobody asked me what happened,” said a Russian election worker who was looking for asylum in the USA after saying that he was caught with video recordings that he made out of the end. On February 26, he was deported to Costa Rica with his wife and little son.

On January 20, shortly after he was sworn in for a second term, President Donald Trump the asylum system suspended as part of him extensive procedure On illegal immigration to show a number of a series of Executive Orders Developed to stop what he described as the “invasion” of the United States.

What asylum seekers find now, according to lawyers, activists and immigrants, is a cloudy, constantly changing situation with a few obvious rules where people can be deported To Countries that you don't know about anything After fleeting talks with immigration officials, while others sparked custody in immigration and customs authorities.

Lawyers who often work with asylum seekers at the border say that their phones have become quiet since Trump took office. They suspect that many who cross, immediately exclude asylum without an opportunity for asylum or are waiting for the screening as part of the UN convention against torture, which is more difficult to qualify than asylum.

“I don't think it is completely clear to someone what happens when people appear and ask for asylum,” said Bella Mosselmans, director of the Global Strategic Litigation Council.

Limits face challenges in court

A thicket of complaints, appeals and counter -suits have filled the dishes when the Trump government acts against activists who argue the arguments Limitations comprehensive restrictions Illegally put people who flee from persecution.

A federal judge is in an important legal dispute Expected to rule Whether courts can check the use of invasion claims by the administration in order to justify the suspension of asylum. There is no date for this decision.

The government says that its declaration of invasion is not subject to a judicial supervision and mentions as “a non -verifiable political question”.

But right -wing groups that are fighting against the announcement of asylum, which was led by the American Civil Liberties Union, called them “as unlawful as the unprecedented” in the complaint Submitted in a Federal Court of Washington, DC, Federal Supreme Court.

The illegal border crossings, which in the first years of the administration of President Joe Biden, who reached almost 10,000 arrests a day at the end of 2024, went back in office significantly in his last year and continued to fall after Trump had returned to the White House.

Nevertheless, more than 200 people are arrested every day because they have illegally exceeded the southern border of the US US border.

Some of these people are looking for asylum, although it is unclear whether someone knows how many.

Paulina Reyes-Perrariz, San Diego Office of the Law Center of the immigration, said that her office had sometimes received 10 to 15 calls a day about asylum after bidding implemented asylum restrictions in 2024.

This number has dropped to almost nothing, with just a handful of overall calls since January 20.

In addition, she added, lawyers are not sure how to deal with asylum cases.

“It is really difficult to advise and advise yourself with individuals if we don't know what the process is,” she said.

“Do everything right”

None of this was expected by the Russian man, who asked not to be identified for fear of persecution when he returns to Russia.

“We felt cheated,” said the 36-year-old of the Associated Press. “We did everything right.”

The family had conscientiously followed the rules. They traveled to Mexico in May 2024, found a cheap place to rent near the border with California and waited almost nine months to plan an asylum interview.

On January 14th, they received the news that their interview would take place on February 2. The interview was canceled on January 20.

Moments after Trump's taking office announced the US customs and border protection that it had this The system used to plan asylum scrub Interviews and canceled tens of thousands of existing dates.

There was no way to make an appeal.

The Russian family went to a border to the border of San Diego to ask for asylum where they were taken into custody, he said.

A few weeks later, they were among the immigrants who had tied up with handcuffs, tied up and flown to Costa Rica. Only the children were left unshakable.

Contact other countries to keep deportants

The Trump administration has tried to accelerate deportations by transforming countries such as Costa Rica and Panama into “bridges” and temporarily imprisoned the deportants while waiting for the return to their origin or third countries.

At the beginning of this year some 200 migrants were deported from the USA to Costa Rica and about 300 goods sent to Panama.

For supporters of stricter immigration controls, the asylum system was always full of exaggerated claims of people who are not exposed to real dangers. In recent years, about a third of up to half of the asylum applications of judges have been approved.

Even some politicians who see themselves as a pro immigration say that the system is exposed to too much abuse.

“People around the world have learned that they claim asylum and can remain in the United States indefinitely to raise their claims,” ​​the US representative Barney Frank, a long -time democratic stalwart in the congress, wrote in Wall Street Journal last year and defended bidges by tightening asylum policy by flooding the illegal immigration.

An uncertain future

Many of the immigrants with whom they have arrived left the establishment of Costa Rican, in which they were arrested for the first time, but the Russian family has remained. The man cannot imagine returning to Russia and nowhere else.

He and his wife spend their days to teach their son Russian and a little English. He organizes volleyball games to keep people busy.

He is not angry with the United States, he understands the government who wants to act against illegal immigration. But he adds, he is in real danger. He followed the rules and cannot understand why he had no chance of pleading his case.

He fights almost constantly and knows that what he did in Russia brought his family to this place.

“I failed her,” he said. “I think that every day: I failed.”