Tijuana, Mexico -Sains are starting a new life in Tijuana, just three miles beyond the US-Maxico border from Diego. Among them are Juan Carlos, an immigrant from Mexico who lived in America for 19 years. On 24 June, his construction crew industry stopped at a home depot in the city of California – near Los Angeles – when he was done by federal immigration agents, to take supply.
“As soon as I saw them, I tried to run,” Juan Carlos said, who lived in America for 19 years. And whose arrest was captured on the cell phone video.
He says that he spent two weeks in American immigration and customs enforcement prevention before he agreed to sign the exile paperwork.
“Los Angeles gave me many things,” Juan Carlos told CBS News. “This gave me opportunities. It gave me another kind of life … I felt as if I was at home. But everything happens for a reason.”
The video of Juan Carlos’s arrest was recorded and posted online by a young woman named Audri. She told CBS News that she was surprised by the incident, but hoped that posting the video would help her family.
“What exactly I found, I was sure he realized an intestine, maybe not to go out that day, but he needed money,” he said.
CBS News has spoken to several unspecified migrants, who were arrested by ice agents, and then after being deported, ended in a country that they are now unfamiliar.
In January, the Mexican government announced that they have established shelters with the border with the US, preparing for a huge wave of deports. One of the features used to be a flamingo, an event space. The Pricila Rivas is a bipolar excluded coordinator for al -Otro Lado, the only non -profit allowed in the facility of flamingos.
Rivas says that this facility has a capacity of 3,000, but only 100 people have been organized at a time.
“It is like a processing station where people are capable of obtaining a copy of their birth certificate and basic identity documents,” Rivus explained.
Rivas offered guidance in Mexico to help for help in helping new life in his new life, finding shelters, finding shelters and being in touch with loved ones.
But she says that not all the exiles are being sent to the sites where there are resources.
“There are flights to Tapachula to the southern border of Mexico,” Rivas said. “So I mean what happens to those who are getting deported in other places.”
Even when the snow agents are more aggressive with their strategy, the exile promised by President Trump on a large scale. Is not completely physical,
According For numbers received by CBS News This week, Ice is on track to record over 300,000 expulsion in the office in the first year of President Trump, which will be the most tally since the Obama administration. However, this number is still below one million annual exile, which has been targeted by the Trump administration. The Department of Homeland Security has tracked more than 13,000 self-expansion since the beginning of the second term of Mr. Trump.
One of the people who chose self-discovery, is Ulisar, who is an immigrant in Cuba. At the age of 15, he shot someone and spent the next 19 years in an American jail before his release in 2024. He was issued a exile order shortly after, and regularly attended the immigration check-in. But as the immigration enforcement increased in the US, he worried that he could be detained. And since Cuba is not accepting the exiles, there was a risk that it would be sent elsewhere.
“This was a high risk for me, the United States to send me to Salvador or South Sudan,” he says, “it was an easy option … let them send them to a country where I had, no, I did not have the option to go or fix it, here coming to Mexico where I am getting better opportunities in life.”
Of the estimated 100,000 people, who were deported between January 1 to June 24 by immigration and customs enforcement, were convicted on 70,583, convicted criminals, According to a ice document Earlier this month was obtained by CBS News. However, the data also shows that most documented violations were traffic or immigration crimes. Less than 1% was sentenced to murder, documents revealed.
Ulisar says that when stories sees immigrants, they feel repentant.
,When I was in jail, I reflected a lot, “Ulisar told CBS News.” They use the excuse only to target those who are actually working and trying to create a better life. ,
Ulisar was able to train for a new career as sales development representative in months since its release. And he is expecting a support system for others starting in Mexico.
“There are many people who are coming,” he said. “They are going to come out of jail, even sent to Mexico here. And if I can help in any way, I am going to continue to do the same thing in honor of my victim and her family.”
Those who were deported told CBS News that they want to return to America, but with tight sanctions, they worry that the only way across the border would be illegal and expensive.
Margaret Brainan and Camillo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.
