Fear of Trump Makes Migrants Disappear From Mexican Border
Their
border-town shelter used to be full of migrants on their way to the
United States. Now it stands nearly empty, thanks to America’s
president.
Betsy Woodruff 04.14.17
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| GET OUT AND STAY OUT! |
The
shelter, called Albergue San Juan Bosco, is perched on a steep hillside
looking over the busy border town of Nogales, Mexico. Its walls are
painted bright turquoise and tangerine, and its wide-open double doors
look west over low hills and Highway 15. Since they opened it, upward of
1 million people have slept there on their way to the U.S. But on the
day I visited, it was almost empty.
It didn’t used to be this way, Gilda and Juan
Francisco, known as Paco, explained. In the decades since they opened
the space to give migrants a place to shower and sleep before crossing
the border, the shelter—with separate rooms full of bunkbeds for men and
women—would regularly house 100 migrants per night. Sometimes, that
number would hit 300 or more, and Gilda and Paco would pull out thin
mattresses to fit everyone on the floor.
But today, those mattresses are neatly stacked in a closet, untouched. ...
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