2025-01-21
13 分钟My name is Annie Coriel, and I'm a reporter at the New York Times.
For the past several years, among other things,
I've been writing about immigration, including during President Trump's first term.
When Trump was campaigning for reelection,
one of the main things he promised was to tackle the migrant crisis.
And the way he was going to do that, he said, was by deporting people, a lot of people.
It's worth noting that deportations are part of the U.S.
immigration system.
And regardless of the president, the United States has been deporting a lot of people every year.
But what Trump and Vance promised was at a totally different scale.
They started calling them mass deportations
and said they'd go after the entire undocumented population,
which experts say could be as many as 14 million people.
As I record this a few days after Trump's inauguration, we.
We still don't know exactly what that's going to look like on the US side,
but what I wanted to see was how it could look on the destination side
in the countries where people are likely to be deported to.
So, about a week before Trump's inauguration, I went to Guatemala.
Guatemala has one of the largest populations of undocumented immigrants living in America.
And another reason I wanted to go to Guatemala was