SAN ANTONIO – Now is an uncertain time at the Migrant Resource Center in San Antonio as some learn how to navigate what President Trump’s new immigration policies mean for them.
Trump signed dozens of executive orders on Monday, including some related to immigration.
One of those orders declared a national emergency at the southern border and ordered the military to expand detention space and transport migrants.
Since Monday, people at the Migrant Resource Center, located on San Pedro Avenue, have been on edge.
KSAT spoke with two people from Venezuela. One of them, a woman, said she is set to be deported, but she doesn’t blame Trump.
The woman blames a well-known Venezuelan gang.
“The Tren de Aragua gang is harmful, so what can we do?” Francis Castro said in Spanish. “We can’t tell ICE not to remove us. This is their country.”
The other, a man, told KSAT that he would have relished the chance to prove himself.
“Well, if we had a chance to work — to be good citizens — we could do that,” Nelson Navarro said in Spanish.
Trump also declared cartels and gangs, such as Tren de Aragua, as foreign terrorist organizations. The declaration means anyone who is a part of those groups could be directly removed from the United States.