A growing number of people are leaving voluntarily rather than wait to be thrown out in President Trump’s crackdown — or risk prison in El Salvador
For Alexandra Hernández the American dream lasted less than four months.
The Venezuelan crossed the US southern border on January 18 and applied for humanitarian protection using a legal route provided by the Biden administration.
Her asylum hearing was scheduled for 2026 and she settled in Denver, hoping to work as a cleaner. But soon the news on Spanish-language social media started to frighten her. Two days after she entered the country, President Trump took office again. He announced executive orders targeting America’s millions of undocumented migrants.
