VIEW LARGER Families stand in line to receive food at the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Sonora. The shelter receives a few hundred people each morning. Joanna Williams, with the Kino Border Initiative, in Nogales, Sonora, says the binational migrant help center did see an increase in people being deported during the first Trump administration, and they are preparing for another possible increase.
“What that means is that the folks arriving to Nogales will have lived an average of 20 years in the US, 78% of them will have been separated from their U.S. citizen kids, and they will have worked in the same job for over 10 years in the U.S.," Williams said.
She says nearly half those people said they identified only a little bit or not at all with their country of origin. The help center is increasing psychological support to help anyone in need navigate deportation and a possible separation from their families.
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