Volunteers with the Green Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans pass out supplies to women and children at a migrant shelter in Nogales, Sonora, on Feb. 4, 2025.Marina Barraza fled the Mexican state Sinaloa with her three children after her young co-worker was killed by cartels. When she arrived in Nogales, Sonora, three months ago, she began trying to get an appointment for humanitarian parole into the U.S. through the CBP One phone app, which Trump shut down the day he took office.
"I have to adapt,” she said in Spanish. “I already found a job. You have to find a new way to live. You have to stay here. You can't go back home again. You can't go back to a place where you know it's dangerous, especially for the children."
The Kino Border Initiative says it’s helped other families who feel they have no choice but to stay in the Mexican border city, including three families who came from Venezuela for U.S. humanitarian parole appointments that were canceled the day Trump took office.
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