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00:02 Report by / Aitor Sáez
00:18 Lucy Garizao | Colombian asylum seeker
01:08 Jennifer Cruz | Honduran asylum seeker
01:45 Temístocles Villanueva | Mexico City Mobility Coordinator 

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No water, no toilet; and barely enough to eat.

This is how Lucy lives with her three children in this camp north of Mexico City.

She and the other 300 migrants settled here were waiting for their asylum claims in the US to be processed, before the Trump administration cancelled the program.

Lucy Garizao, Colombian asylum seeker
"People here are are wasting away, in the rain, in the sun. Tthese days that it has been raining it has been quite heavy, the children have had the flu, fever. The water is getting in, it has been complicated".

Starting in 2022, six camps appeared in the Mexican capital, with up to 3,000 people on the streets. Now most of the camps have been dismantled. At the end of April, a local judge stopped evictions. There are only about 400 migrants left.

Many avoid city shelters. Instead, they take turns keeping watch at night.

Jennifer Cruz, Honduran refugee
"The city authorities came and told us that they were going to demolish our shacks. Now we hardly sleep because we have to be careful that they don't come and tear down our shacks. The insecurity here is just too much".

Even after the Trump administration's cancellation of the asylum program, the majorit here want to stay in Mexico. A plan

A monitoring group says the Mexican government is taking measures to prevent migrants from reaching the northern border in the face of pressure from Washington. The local official in charge, Temístocles Villanueva, acknowledges the complication of managing this crisis.

Temístocles Villanueva, Mexico City Human Mobility Coordinator
"Mexico City used to provide greater protection and security for these families waiting to cross over. With the change in migration policy, people have now been stuck.

02:28 
Five days after this interview, this camp, one of two remaining in the centre of Mexico City, was cleared on short notice.