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Donald Trump won his landslide election in part by promising to secure the broken and porous U.S.-Mexico border.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, illegal immigration spiked dramatically.
Now, it appears some would-be illegal immigrants are not happy that Trump won and Kamala Harris lost.
The New York Post reports, "Hundreds of migrants at a shelter on the Mexican side of the southern border say they are waiting anxiously to see if they can cross into the US before President-elect Trump takes office and fear they may not get over the line in time."
"According to a report in The Telegraph, more than 850 migrants are living at Senda de Vida shelter in the northern Mexican city of Reynosa, a town bordering McAllen, Texas," the Post notes. "Many of them have applied using the CBP One app, which was created in 2020 to schedule appointments at points of entry into the US."
So they are currently in limbo.
The report continued, "The migrants have been waiting for months to see if they can get an appointment to legally claim asylum via the app. If their appointment does not come in time, they say they will be forced to attempt to cross the border illegally, risking deportation or being preyed on by the cartels."
Now the key part. How these migrants are feeling about the recent U.S. presidential election and the results.
"The mood at the camp, which consists of tents and small wooden buildings, quickly turned from hope to fear in the wake of President-elect Trump’s crushing defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris last week," the Post reports.
More, "Raquel Segura, 39, from Nuevo León, Mexico, tells the outlet that he and his two daughters are among those hoping to cross the border. “If Harris had won, people would be jumping for joy and as you can see right now, they look sad, they are feeling down,' Pastor Hector Silva, who runs the shelter, told The Telegraph."
Trump ran on fixing the border and mass deportations of illegals.
He has already chosen former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan to be his border czar.
Homan had a message for illegal aliens when he spoke at the Republican National Convention this year: "get packing now."
Nice. An astronomical improvement over the last "border czar," Kamala Harris, who didn't do anything.
In a sane world, illegal immigrants and would-be illegal immigrants should be worried that they can no longer break into the United States and remain as easily as they used to.
So, yes, migrant lawbreakers should be scared or worried if Donald Trump keeps his promises.
It's long overdue.