Hopes were crushed when several illegal migrants were deported back to Mexico after spending most of their savings and went into debts to pay human smugglers to bring them to the United States.

Many thought that President Joe Biden would let them stay in the U.S. But they were transported back across the border amid the increase in illegal immigration in Biden's administration, according to a New York Post report.

Honduran migrant, Gladys Oneida Pérez Cruz, said that Biden promised them that everything is going to change.

"He hasn't done it yet, but he is going to be a good president for migrants," she told the New York Times.

Biden terminated the Trump-era policy "Remain in Mexico" program that required Central American asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while U.S. courts review their cases. However, new Central American migrants are not yet welcome without a schedule.

The new administration has exempted unaccompanied migrant children. But it lets go of adult detainees and families and tells them to walk back to Mexico to prevent a surge in illegal border crossings.

Different groups of migrants walked back to Mexico after being detained for illegally entering the U.S. The group was expecting that the new president would welcome them.

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Illegal Migrants' Stories

One of the migrants that took a leap was Pérez Cruz and her son Henry, who has cerebral palsy. Pérez Cruz reportedly hired smugglers to transport them across the border shortly after Biden's inauguration in January.

The smugglers told her that the border was open and they would help her disabled son across. Neither of the claims was true. 

Pérez Cruz was apprehended and forced to go back to Mexico even after her sister in Maryland paid $9,000. She said that they plan to return to Central America.

One unnamed Honduran migrant traveling with a caravan claimed that Biden would give them "100 days to get" to the country, according to another New York Post report.

The migrant's group was the most recently stalled by border authorities in Guatemala that still tries to push through to the U.S.

Meanwhile, authorities in the U.S. are struggling to manage a sharp increase in children crossing the border on their own. These unaccompanied children are being held in facilities, which was often longer than permitted by law, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Jenny Contreras, a 19-year-old Guatemalan mother, told her husband, who is a butcher in Chicago, that she did not make it. She was with her three-year-old daughter while making the travel to the border.

Surge of Illegal Migrants

Biden has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to manage the thousands of unaccompanied migrant children in detention facilities.

According to a CNBC report, FEMA will help shelter and transfer a number of unaccompanied children migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Meanwhile, Biden did not call the situation a national emergency. Former President Donald Trump had acknowledged in 2019 that it was a national emergency when his administration experienced an increase in border crossings.

"I have said many times, a Border Patrol facility is no place for a child," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a report. He noted that the migrant children could be placed with a family member or sponsor until their immigration cases are processed.

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