Colombian migrant shows concern about Donald Trump’s raids in the US: “We are afraid”

There is concern among the United States migrant population due to the raids that the Donald Trump government is doing. In the case of 2025, about 2,550 Colombians have been deported. Some have denounced having witnessed ill -treatment by the immigration authority.

Johanna Silva, an undocumented migrant in the United States, spoke with Live Caracol news about what he has been living: “The issue is alarming because we do not have enough information regarding the case, only what we see on social networks, in comments on the streets in the streets in the streets , but we really don’t know how the situation will be handled. So, We all go out with fear of the streets To take public transport services, getting to our work sometimes becomes a little traumatic because we don’t know when leaving the train or bus what awaits us, that is a bit scary. ”

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Johanna said that in his work there are more immigrant employees who do not have the necessary documentation to work in the United States, “I would say that 95% are undocumented”. He added that “the situation is quite frustrating and, even more, without knowing what the treatment is and how our countries of origin are going to take us again because they might mount on a plane and sport us or, as they say, They get into a jail and have us I don’t know how long. ”

This Colombian immigrant reported that her family and her companions depend economically on them, so they are worried about their situation.

“Speculations from very close villages have been heard that are 2 or 3 kilometers from where we live” where they are doing felsas.

Johanna said that the way she found a job without having the necessary documentation was because in the city where she lives “it is a bit easier to get the job because There are some laws that protect immigrantsto people of race and people with social distinctions. The hiring mode is easy, they do not demand as such documents, the Green Card (permanent resident card) or the work permit to be able to enter, but obviously the salaries are not equal to those of a person who has the Green Card , that can work, obviously they are lower, are the legal minimums that this State gives. ”

Among the jobs that an immigrant must perform in the United States illegally are “Kitchen jobs, in hotels, too long -standing days where we spend 8 to 16 hours standing with a fairly heavy workload and for a minimum wage, equal to what we would work in Colombia doing much more quieter things. ”

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