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I choose to leave rather than being led
The 19-year-old Peruvian woman at the time arrived in the United States 20 years ago and spent overstaying tourist visas.
She traded potential South American careers as a graphic designer in an effort to clean her hotel rooms and offices in Los Angeles.
She paid taxes, made friends, and took courses at her local community college.
The latter never happened.
During the first months of the second Trump administration, Celeste, in relation to her safety, asked her to be featured by her name alone – admitted that she was uneasy in the images. Undocumented immigrants are loaded onto planes, bound like violent criminals, and are tied up along the way to their home and their own countries.
The idea of ​​being torn from her home without the time to pack her belongings or say goodbye to her friends, shaking her into her core.
Therefore, Celeste decided to return to Peru by the end of the year.
Celeste is not alone as there is growing sentiment among the immigrant community that it is best to leave on his own terms rather than his will.
My colleague, Rebecca Previn, documented the Celeste incident and the factors that led some immigrants to self-denial.
What causes this fear?
Before winning the second term, Trump has pledged to make the biggest deportation effort in US history.
The rhetoric of his campaign focused on undocumented immigrants who committed violent crimes. But shortly after he took office, his administration pivoted, considering everyone in the country without allowing criminals.
What’s changed?
The new administration is employing explicit and subtle tactics to encourage immigrants to leave voluntarily.
On the day he took office, Trump disabled the CBP single mobile app that the Biden administration had been using since 2023, creating a more orderly process that would apply for asylum from the US-Mexico border. Thousands of immigrants have cancelled their appointments for asylum.
Instead, the Trump administration launched a replacement app, CBP Homewhich allows immigrants to inform the US government of their intention to leave the country.
The agent is Advertising Campaign I encourage people without allowing them to leave immediately. This week, Trump told Fox Noticias he was. Planning Gives pay and plane tickets to immigrants in countries who choose to “self-abolize.”
The administration is not just targeting undocumented immigrants. Over the past few weeks, Homeland Security has been sending messages to immigrants who entered using the CBP One app, informing them that their temporary legal status has ended and that they should. Leave “Immediately.”
What do you say about the numbers?
The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to Times’ data requests regarding the number of people who used the CBP Home App.
It is also difficult to estimate the number of people who have made the tough decision to leave their lives and families built here to return to their homeland they have never seen in decades.
What do immigrants say?
Luz Gallegos, Executive Director TODEC Legal Center In the Inland Empire, her staff said she talks “everyday” with people considering leaving.
“What’s going on in the session? “Prefiero irme con algo, que irme sin nada”“Gallegos said.
Elena, an unauthorized Mexican immigrant who lived in the Inland Empire for nearly 20 years, said she and her husband would return to their home town in the southern Chaepath by Christmas.
“My heart hurts so badly,” Elena said. Elena also asked her to be identified only in her name, as she fears she would attract the attention of immigration authorities. “I saw people traveling with workers and their families, people who brought life here. All of a sudden this happens and their dreams are destroyed.”
She has three adult children – two born in the United States – and two grandchildren in California. She suffocates at the idea that she is thousands of miles away.
Maria, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, said that Maria, about 100 miles southeast, will continue to return to the west of Michoacan in the Coachella Valley in 30 years. Like the other women interviewed for this article, she asked to be identified only by name.
“It’s as if I’m divided into two parts,” she said. “I wasn’t happy here, and I’m not happy there.”
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