Some of the appointments with US authorities are scheduled for days after Trump takes office on January 20, or even on Inauguration Day itself.
“It’s no secret that sometimes when Donald Trump says things, he does them,“ Dayana Hernandez, a 36-year-old Venezuelan said.
“We really don’t know what to do, whether to go back, keep going forwards -- we really don’t know,“ she added.
During his first term in the White House from 2017 to 2021, Trump put heavy pressure on Mexico to turn back a tide of migrants from Central America.
“Just as there are bad people, there are good people who want to work,“ she said.
Hernandez was one of hundreds of migrants waiting in Tapachula this week for permission to travel to the border to request asylum, after having made an appointment through the US government's CBP One mobile app.
But Mexican authorities are struggling to deal with the crowds waiting near the city's immigration office.
Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence and poverty travel across Mexico every year for the US border, some of them paying people smugglers to transport them in trucks.
Although making an appointment through the app does not guarantee that migrants can remain in the United States, it allows them to obtain a work permit while they continue their process there.
“Thank God we got the appointment, but of course things are still uncertain. We don’t know what will happen,“ she said.
If his policies succeed in boosting the US economy, that could be good for migrants, she added.
“If the economy is better, it benefits us too.”
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